Great work! I'm excited about this feature and want to help with development. What do you guys suggest are the best topics to ramp up in preparation for these upcoming sprints?
On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 10:18 AM, Josh Elser <els...@apache.org> wrote: > Yup, we're on the same page :) > > > On 7/26/18 1:28 PM, Zach York wrote: > >> I would REALLY hope that the WAL interface/API changes would go into >> master >> even if the feature work for Ratis is going in a feature branch. Not only >> would this enable other backends to be developed in parallel with the >> Ratis >> solution if there are other good fits for a non-HDFS WAL, but also it >> would >> save the burden of having to rebase these core changes onto the latest >> master to maintain compatibility. I'm assuming the Ratis portion of the >> code would be mostly new files so these would be less of a concern. >> >> On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 9:24 AM, Josh Elser <els...@apache.org> wrote: >> >> On 7/26/18 1:00 AM, Stack wrote: >>> >>> All this said, I'd like to start moving toward the point where we start >>>> >>>>> breaking out this work into a feature-branch off of master and start >>>>> building code. My hope is that this is amenable to everyone, with the >>>>> acknowledge that the Ratis work is considered "experimental" and not an >>>>> attempt to make all of HBase use Ratis-backed WALs. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Go for it. >>>>> >>>> >>>> The branch would have WAL API changes only or would it include Ratis WAL >>>> dev? (If the latter, would that be better done over on Ratis project?). >>>> >>>> >>> I think we would start with WAL API changes, get those "blessed", and >>> then >>> continue Ratis WAL dev after that. >>> >>> >>
