This vote is to merge the Tez Shuffle Handler feature branch (TEZ-3334) into the master branch. Having done extensive testing and thanks to all the feedback given, the Tez Shuffle Handler delivers on its promise to reduce shuffle times for the auto-reduce case and pave the way for more shuffle types in the future.
Please view a patch of the proposed merge attached to the TEZ-3334 jira https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TEZ-3334 As to be the most useful and time efficient, please test and vote early if you have any misgivings or questions about the readiness of the branch so as to not to delay the merge process and increase the amount of work on my part to continue to maintain this branch with master. This vote will be open until Wednesday around the same time. Here is my +1. Regards, jeagles
