I will be supporting table priority and related changes in the foreseeable future.
Cheers On Dec 12, 2011, at 6:55 PM, Todd Lipcon <t...@cloudera.com> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Andrew Purtell <apurt...@apache.org> wrote: >> >> HBase as a project should not have as a criteria for inclusion of some >> feature that Cloudera and SU and Facebook run it. Core managed to escape >> Yahoo. Let's not run history in reverse here in HBase land. And, actually, >> this makes it worse, because the the occurrence that a number of core HBase >> users (multiple) will all need something is substantially less likely than >> if one might find it useful; or, maybe, only users outside of those with >> such self-appointed attitude, yet perhaps a community multiples in size of >> "core users". > > It's not about Cloudera/SU/FB - it's about code that will be supported > by people who are committed to the project. TrendMicro certainly fits > the bill. I of course mean no offense to Lu Jia, but neither he nor > Taobao has made continued contributions in the past - just one other > bug fix beyond the HBASE-4120 project. > > If we have a few of the core people committed to running this in > production and supporting it in the future, I'm all for it (just like > I am +1 on security). I just want to avoid repeating mistakes like the > Avro server which isn't really supported despite being in our > codebase. (You'll note this was a Cloudera contribution but from a > contributor who was doing this in his spare time rather than part of > job responsibilities, and we have never run it in production > scenarios) > > I am consistently conservative on what goes into the project because > we have to stand behind what we release. I certainly don't think _all_ > core people should find every feature useful (eg REST and Thrift are > examples of some things which are useless to many but I think make > sense). But if _no_ core people see a feature as a requirement then > I'd rather let it bake until we have many people requesting it. > Otherwise people download HBase, try out these "fringe" features, and > get a bad taste in their mouth when they've bit-rot across several > versions of little usage. > > -Todd > -- > Todd Lipcon > Software Engineer, Cloudera
