+1 for removing it. I'm all for reduced complexity if not a lot of users are benefitting from it.
On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 9:29 AM, Fredy Wijaya <fwij...@cloudera.com.invalid> wrote: > Hi all, > > In the master branch, we support both Hadoop 2 and Hadoop 3 via > IMPALA_MINICLUSTER_PROFILE environment variable. When Impala transitioned > from Hadoop 2 to Hadoop 3, we introduced IMPALA_MINICLUSTER_PROFILE as a > way to easily switch between Hadoop 2 and Hadoop 3. It made sense at that > time. However, I believe the IMPALA_MINICLUSTER_PROFILE=2 has outlived its > usefulness and has grown more complex to maintain given that we need to > introduce shims, feature flags, additional Jenkins jobs, etc. Given that we > already have 2.x branch for Impala with Hadoop 2 support. I'm proposing > that we remove IMPALA_MINICLUSTER_PROFILE=2 in the master branch so that we > can focus our effort on supporting Hadoop 3 on the master branch. > > What do others think? >
