Hi, Hadoop has matured far from Hadoop 0.20 and has had two major releases after that and there has been no development on branch-0.20 ( http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/hadoop/common/branches/branch-0.20/) for 3 years now. It is high time we drop support for Hadoop 0.20 and only support Hadoop 1.x and 2.x lines going forward. This will reduce the maintenance effort and also enable us to right more efficient code and cut down on reflections.
Vote closes on Tuesday, Sep 23 2014. Thanks, Rohini
