Hi Jarcec, Thanks for the explanation, make sense. Agree fully and +1 for a release.
Thanks, Alex On Dec 2, 2012, at 5:46 PM, Jarek Jarcec Cecho <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Alex, > I had several reasons when I've suggested this approach. Firstly, for > versions like 2.0.0-alpha I would expect to get 2.0.0 (without -alpha) soon > and without major changes. This won't be case for Sqoop as we might need to > do major, backward compatibility changes - it's undesirable to introduce > backward incompatible between minor revisions. We also most likely will > release several version before leaving alpha state, which might cause issues > to see what is and what is not considered stable. Also this first cut is very > far from something that might be called Sqoop 2, it contain just very basic > set of functionality without several most important goals of Sqoop 2. However > I'm aware that Hadoop is following this path [1]. > > Please note that I did not invented this idea. For example KDE project [2] is > using very similar approach for quite some time by now as you can see on > their archive [3]. Versions like 4.8.90 or 4.8.95 are "pre-releases" for 4.9. > Another example would be Ubuntu one client [4]. I would recommend taking a > look on my original proposal as it contains all the information [5]. > > Links: > 1 :http://mirror.nexcess.net/apache/hadoop/common/hadoop-2.0.1-alpha/ > 2: http://kde.org/ > 3: http://download.kde.org/unstable/ > 4: https://launchpad.net/ubuntuone-client/stable-4-0 > 5: http://markmail.org/message/5jygqqy3oryxqdib > > On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 03:43:38PM +0100, Alexander Alten-Lorenz wrote: >> Hi, >> >> great. >> Why not not use a 2.0.0.alpha version or something like that? The could be >> 2.1.x the first stable release. 1.99 could cause some irritation in future >> dialogs (1.xx vs. 2.xx). >> >> Thanks, >> Alex >> >> On Dec 2, 2012, at 2:17 AM, Jarek Jarcec Cecho <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Sqoop fellow developers, >>> it seems that basic import and export functionality in Sqoop 2 will be very >>> soon covered. Having said that I would like to propose doing "first cut" >>> release of Sqoop 2. My motivation to provide early bits is to get feedback >>> from actual users as soon as possible, so that we can incorporate good >>> ideas before it will become too expensive. >>> >>> As we've discussed in the past [1] - I would like to propose version >>> number 1.99.1. I believe that this version number implies that it's very >>> far from current stable 1.4 version and very very near to 2.0, but it's not >>> 2.0 yet. I would also like to volunteer to be the release manager for this >>> first cut of Sqoop 2 branch. >>> >>> I'm happy to hear other's thoughts! >>> >>> Jarcec >>> >>> Links: >>> 1: http://markmail.org/message/5jygqqy3oryxqdib >> >> -- >> Alexander Alten-Lorenz >> http://mapredit.blogspot.com >> German Hadoop LinkedIn Group: http://goo.gl/N8pCF >> -- Alexander Alten-Lorenz http://mapredit.blogspot.com German Hadoop LinkedIn Group: http://goo.gl/N8pCF
