On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Thomas Koch <[email protected]> wrote: > Patrick Hunt: > > It's fine to discuss the roadmap on list. We should only be making > > decisions on list regardless. Last I heard from Mahadev he was > > coordinating the meetup for sometime this month or early next. > > So just for the record, I don't expect many to agree: > > It's my understanding that ZooKeepers first duty is reliability. The last > major release (3.4.0) however was immediately followed by two bugfix > releases > and jira already shows another 5 blockers and 27 critical bugs. > > Maybe it would be a good idea now to make robustness and stability the > first > priority and refuse any new features for the next time. > > As for Patrick's idea of scalability I think that there is a lot of > potential > to make ZK scale even more. I've already outlined the idea of an immutable > datatree and the possibility to handle read requests in parallel, > independent > from the write queue. The recently discussed "Disruptor" system[1] is also > worth a look for inspiration. But it would be hazardous if not impossible > to > explore any such path without cleaning up the code first. > > [1] http://code.google.com/p/disruptor > > Best regards, > > Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro >
That release (3.4) was kind of oddly post scripted as an alpha. I didn't catch that at first but did eventually. -- - Mark http://www.lucidimagination.com
