+1 on making request. St.Ack On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Sean Busbey <[email protected]> wrote:
> On one of our open issues about Hadoop versions, one of the Hadoop PMC > members mentioned that the 2.6.z line wasn't planning any additional > releases[1]. > > I'd like us to request, as a downstream community, that the Hadoop project > plan for maintenance releases on this line given the non-production status > of 2.7.0, unevaluated quality of further 2.7 releases and the unknown > status of a 2.8 release. > > Right now, there's substantial evidence from our Elliot that we should be > pushing our users from the 2.4/2.5 releases onto 2.6. At the moment, 2.6.0 > contains a couple of critical bugs that effectively prevent the use of HDFS > transparent encryption[2]. Now, that feature isn't needed but it's nice to > have as an operational alternative to our own implementation. And the > current bug _destroys_ HBase clusters, so the consequences for the curious > are severe. > > That specific issue aside, however, as a system that runs on top of Hadoop > we impose on our downstream users a dependency on that project. Regular > maintenance releases are critical to easing long term operational pain, so > we should proactively look out for them by prodding our less stable > upstream dependencies. > > > [1]: http://s.apache.org/MTY > [2]: HADOOP-11674 and HADOOP-11710 > > -- > Sean >
