Hey Ram, Just a thought: could you make the backward-incompatible changes in the data format ahead of actually having support for using them? EG if you need a new field, put it unused in the WAL now to reserve space for it?
-Todd On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 11:44 PM, ramkrishna vasudevan < ramkrishna.s.vasude...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Stack > > First I would like to thank you for the reviews and understand the > decision. > I would just like to highlight few facts if this does not make into 0.96 > then we may have to > -> Handle backward compatability issues with WAL. Currently inorder to > retrieve tags we write a taglength thought it is 0. This would help us to > replay WAL with Tags. > -> Codecs like PRefixTreeCodec needs to be working for versions without > Tags. Currently as PrefixTreeCodec is not out in any release these are not > a problem for now. > > So to avoid these problems we can get these Tags on 0.96 release. May be a > few more days of time. Is it possible? I can try getting people for more > reviews too. > Thanks Stack. Nice of you. > > Regards > Ram > > > On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 7:09 AM, Devaraj Das <d...@hortonworks.com> wrote: > > > A late breaking one- https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-9227. > > Kindly consider for the upcoming RC. > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Andrew Purtell <apurt...@apache.org> > > wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Stack <st...@duboce.net> wrote: > > > > > > > I see no reason that 0.98 cannot come out a week or a month after > 0.96; > > > > > > tags is close and justification enough for a major release. > > > > I propose Andrew as RM for 0.98/1.0.0 if he is up for taking it on. > > > > > > > > > I would be pleased to volunteer to RM 0.98. > > > > > > It will be a challenge for anyone to live up to your outstanding > example > > > for 0.96. > > > > > > If I were to be your RM for 0.98, then I would suggest a .0 release in > > the > > > beginning of October. There are 42 open issues against 0.98 > specifically > > > and I would like to also provide everyone some time for post 0.96 > release > > > thinking. > > > > > > I am not sure we should move from 0.98 to 1.0 without another interim > > > release, that would be a call for a later time perhaps, maybe a 1.0 > > release > > > at the start of January 2014. > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Best regards, > > > > > > - Andy > > > > > > Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet > Hein > > > (via Tom White) > > > > > > > -- > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE > > NOTICE: This message is intended for the use of the individual or entity > to > > which it is addressed and may contain information that is confidential, > > privileged and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader > > of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified > that > > any printing, copying, dissemination, distribution, disclosure or > > forwarding of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have > > received this communication in error, please contact the sender > immediately > > and delete it from your system. Thank You. > > > -- Todd Lipcon Software Engineer, Cloudera
