On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Roman Shaposhnik <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Eric Yang <[email protected]> wrote:
>> No, that is not what I proposed.  I proposed having different test profile 
>> to test against different Hadoop releases.
>> Ultimately, HBase published pom will have one major version of Hadoop 
>> artifact as an dependency.  Quote from my own words:
>>
>>>>>>>>>> I recommend that one HBase release should be certified for one major 
>>>>>>>>>> release of Hadoop to reduce risk.
>
> I see this as neither practical, nor desirable. A proper place for any kind
> of stack validation is outside of HBase (be it Bigtop or your company's
> distribution). I'd rather see HBase itself (as a project) be as Hadoop
> agnostic as possible.
>

I'm w/ Roman on this one.  We've been trying with a good while to move
away from being tied to a single hadoop version.
St.Ack

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