thanks Andrew, it's really a clear answer. On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Andrew Purtell <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Hongbin, > > Regarding HBase patch policy: It's a case by case decision. We welcome you > to ask for what you need, or propose changes/patches you'd like to see > committed. Committers will look at if APIs are added or changed, what areas > of functionality are impacted, if we can meet our compatibility promises, > and make judgements about stability and maintainability risks. > > In this case we are looking at a filter, which is a small self-contained > component. Because it is an isolated change it is low risk in my opinion. > If we did commit this to 0.98 it would be also committed to the other > active branches too. The next releases made from any of those branches > would have the feature. > > However, unless you are ok with telling your users that certain minimum > versions of HBase are required, you should not depend on new HBase > features. Maybe this isn't important enough for that? > > Anyway, just let me say if you do have requests or questions for HBase > developers, please feel free to open an HBase JIRA or mail us at > [email protected]. > > > > On May 4, 2015, at 6:33 PM, hongbin ma <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > hi, andrew > > > > i'm always curious about hbase's(or any apache project's) patch policy. > > I mean, how does a committer decides which branches to rebase the patch? > > Is 0.98 or 0.94 still receiving new feature patches? > > > > And what would your suggest considering Luke Han's concern in last email? > > > >> On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 11:23 PM, Luke Han <[email protected]> wrote: > >> One concern I have is: if we go and depends on this feature, that mean > any > >> installation has to patch this feature in there own cluster. Which will > >> bring a little bit complex since may of real cases are running in > previous > >> version even not upgraded to HBase 1.0. > >> > >> I don't think Kylin depends particular HBase feature so far. > >> > >> Thanks. > >> > >> > >> Best Regards! > >> --------------------- > >> > >> Luke Han > >> > >> 2015-05-02 6:56 GMT+08:00 Li Yang <[email protected]>: > >> > >> > Thanks Andrew! > >> > > >> > Hongbin, could you follow up with hbase community? This feature is > useful! > >> > > >> > On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 12:57 AM, Andrew Purtell <[email protected]> > >> > wrote: > >> > > >> > > Hi, I'm the 0.98 RM for HBase. I looked at the patch and do not see > a > >> > > reason why we can't backport HBASE-11144 into the 0.98 release > line. If > >> > > this is something you think you need, please come and ask on the > JIRA or > >> > on > >> > > [email protected]. > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 5:16 AM, hongbin ma <[email protected]> > >> > wrote: > >> > > > >> > > > i don't think it's possible > >> > > > they didn't do it for a reason, maybe it's not compatible with > 0.98's > >> > API > >> > > > > >> > > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 8:14 PM, Luke Han <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > > > > >> > > > > Is it possible to patch this to 0.98.x? > >> > > > > > >> > > > > > >> > > > > Best Regards! > >> > > > > --------------------- > >> > > > > > >> > > > > Luke Han > >> > > > > > >> > > > > 2015-04-27 17:13 GMT+08:00 Li Yang <[email protected]>: > >> > > > > > >> > > > > > Had this come earlier, we don't have to merge scan ranges > >> > ourselves. > >> > > > :-( > >> > > > > > > >> > > > > > > >> > > > > > > >> > > > > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 10:21 PM, hongbin ma < > [email protected] > >> > > > >> > > > > wrote: > >> > > > > > > >> > > > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-11144 > >> > > > > > > > >> > > > > > > when we have a hdp environment with HBASE 1.1, we might > need to > >> > try > >> > > > out > >> > > > > > > this... > >> > > > > > > > >> > > > > > > -- > >> > > > > > > Regards, > >> > > > > > > > >> > > > > > > *Bin Mahone | 马洪宾* > >> > > > > > > Apache Kylin: http://kylin.io > >> > > > > > > Github: https://github.com/binmahone > >> > > > > > > > >> > > > > > > >> > > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > -- > >> > > > Regards, > >> > > > > >> > > > *Bin Mahone | 马洪宾* > >> > > > Apache Kylin: http://kylin.io > >> > > > Github: https://github.com/binmahone > >> > > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > -- > >> > > Best regards, > >> > > > >> > > - Andy > >> > > > >> > > Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet > Hein > >> > > (via Tom White) > >> > > > >> > > > > > > > > > -- > > Regards, > > > > Bin Mahone | 马洪宾 > > Apache Kylin: http://kylin.io > > Github: https://github.com/binmahone > -- Regards, *Bin Mahone | 马洪宾* Apache Kylin: http://kylin.io Github: https://github.com/binmahone
