I think someone should step up and fix the easy ones, if possible.
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Bill Graham <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Kai for reporting these. > > What do people think about the severity of these issues w.r.t. Pig 11? I > see a few possible options: > > 1. We include some or all of these patches in a new Pig 11 rc. We'd want to > make sure that they don't destabilize the current branch. This approach > makes sense if we think Pig 11 wouldn't be a good release without one or > more of these included. > > 2. We continue with the Pig 11 release without these, but then include one > or more in a 0.11.1 release. > > 3. We continue with the Pig 11 release without these, but then include them > in a 0.12 release. > > Jon has a patch for the MAP issue > (PIG-3144<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-3144>) > ready, which seems like the most pressing of the three to me. > > thanks, > Bill > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 2:27 AM, Kai Londenberg < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I just subscribed to the dev mailing list in order to give you some > > feedback on pig 0.11 candidate 2. > > > > The following three issues are currently present in 0.11 candidate 2: > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-3144 - 'Erroneous map entry > > alias resolution leading to "Duplicate schema alias" errors' > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-3194 - Changes to > > ObjectSerializer.java break compatibility with Hadoop 0.20.2 > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-3195 - Race Condition in > > PhysicalOperator leads to ExecException "Error while trying to get > > next result in POStream" > > > > The last two of these are easily solveable (see the tickets for > > details on that). The first one is a bit trickier I think, but at > > least there is a workaround for it (pass Map fields through an UDF) > > > > In my personal opinion, each of these problems is pretty severe, but > > opinions about the importance of the MAP Datatype and STREAM Operator, > > as well as Hadoop 0.20.2 compatibility might differ. > > > > so far .. > > > > Kai Londenberg > > > > > > -- > *Note that I'm no longer using my Yahoo! email address. Please email me at > [email protected] going forward.* > -- Russell Jurney twitter.com/rjurney [email protected] datasyndrome.com
