>>Lets then make a tags-only release on the heels of 0.96. As said above, tags is cause enough for a major hbase release. Okie. Let me see if anything is needed so that we can avoid compatability issues later. I will consider your suggestion also. Thanks Stack.
Regards Ram On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 8:51 PM, Stack <st...@duboce.net> wrote: > 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. > > > > Is there not a version in WALEdit or on the WAL file that would allow us > distinguish a WALEdit written w/ tags from one w/o? > > > > > -> 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. > > > > Could we have two codecs, one that supports tags and another that does not? > > > > > > 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. > > > My sense going by recent experience is that landing big patches, what w/ > review cycles and then stabilization of build post commit, is that the > process always takes way more time than I expect. You fellas are almost > there -- tags is shaping up nicely -- and you and Anoop are super receptive > and reactive to criticism so it would all likely run faster than usual but > I predict at least another week before it lands -- perhaps too weeks -- and > that is too long for a 0.96 that is already way too late. > > Lets get tags into trunk. I can help after this development release and the > release candidate gets posted. Lets then make a tags-only release on the > heels of 0.96. As said above, tags is cause enough for a major hbase > release. > > Good on you Ram, > St.Ack >
