Roman/Andy: I think the following discussion is very helpful. Please keep the on-going discussion to public.
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Roman Shaposhnik <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
