Andrew, On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Andrew Purtell <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, DoA is harsh, when I meant more like "abandoned at release". Similar to > 0.21. > > Well that is my question, really. Is it?
Personally, I don't remember 0.21 being deployed anywhere in production (I could be wrong and would love to be corrected). With 0.22 there's at least EBay and one other reasonably big shop I know of that will be deploying it to production clusters. Thus, IMHO, they are not similar in that regard. > We've heard that CDH4 is going to be start from something a lot closer to > 0.23 than 0.22, > that Hortonworks is committed to 0.23. It seems 0.23 is the future, and a RC > may be > happening as early as the end of this year, i.e. in the next month or so. > > Given recent history and the above described commitments, I think there is > confusion about where/if 0.22 fits in. > People will work on what inspires them, but it seems the center of gravity > has already moved beyond 0.22. > Is that a fair statement? >From my point of view, it will be fair to call 0.22 a *stable* stop gap release before 0.23 matures. How long does the window of exposure for 0.22 last? Your guess is as good as mine. At times I wish that HDFS and MR2 release work in .23 were done as different projects. Take it with a grain of salt, but I believe that MR2 will be holding .23 back in terms of deployment. So here's the bottom line the way I see it: the worst that could happen to an OS project is to be a hostage of a NEXT great thing (KDE and other examples come to mind readily). When Hadoop 0.23 will be stable enough -- it will surely obsolete .22, in the meantime we will have .22 to fill the gap. > Then I'm sure the eBay guys will have that interest. :-) That's the beauty of Open Source. On the other hand, since you asked a "community" question I was compelled to point out that there would be a reasonably sizable community running .22/HBase. Thanks, Roman. P.S. Sorry for making this thread longer than it had to be. Lets take it off-list from this reply on.
