I believe "NT" is already meant to cover the "NP" case. How can we rephrase it to better cover the meaning you want?
if "S" and "F" are meant to mean "production ready" why don't we just make that status "production ready" and pick a symbol for it? (maybe a check mark since this is no longer a plain text document). > But, then I realized that we don't have a single entry for HBase that implies > it would even work for Hadoop 3. AFAIK this is still because every release of Hadoop 3 has had some issue that we know will cause headaches for entry level users of HBase. (those versions say "X" and not "NT" because of specific problems). I think we recently determined that 3.0.3 and 3.1.1 don't have a known problem. On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 10:12 AM, Josh Elser <[email protected]> wrote: > Mich T had cross-posted a question to users@{hbase,phoenix} the only day. > After some more information, we were able to find out that Mich was trying > to use Hadoop 3.1 with HBase 1.2.6 > > After pointing Mich to the compatibility table[1], I was about to puff out > my chest and say "look! this table could've told you that HBase 1.2.6 > wouldn't work with Hadoop 3.x!" > > But, then I realized that we don't have a single entry for HBase that > implies it would even work for Hadoop 3. We presently have the following: > > "S" = supported > "X" = not supported > "NT" = Not tested > > I propose that would should add another "value" for cells in the table to > better represent "Works, but not battle-tested" or similar. That would make > possible values: > > "S" = supported > "NP" = not production ready > "X" = not supported > "NT" = not tested > > Furthermore, the word "supported" drives me up a wall (as I think it implies > the wrong mindset for an open source community), and I would rather see > "functional". e.g. > > "F" = Fully functional, production ready > "NP" = Functional, but not production ready/has known issues > "X" = Not functional, lacking basic ability > "NT" = Not tested, functionality is unknown > > Thoughts? Things that I've missed? > > - Josh > > [1] http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#hadoop
