About time! Tim
Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: > From: Alejandro Abdelnur <[email protected]> > Date: August 7, 2013, 9:49:27 AM PDT > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, > "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, > "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, > "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: Upgrade to protobuf 2.5.0 for the 2.1.0 release, HADOOP-9845 > Reply-To: [email protected] > > I' like to upgrade to protobuf 2.5.0 for the 2.1.0 release. > > As mentioned in HADOOP-9845, Protobuf 2.5 has significant benefits to > justify the upgrade. > > Doing the upgrade now, with the first beta, will make things easier for > downstream projects (like HBase) using protobuf and adopting Hadoop 2. If > we do the upgrade later, downstream projects will have to support 2 > different versions and they my get in nasty waters due to classpath issues. > > I've locally tested the patch in a pseudo deployment of 2.1.0-beta branch > and it works fine (something is broken in trunk in the RPC layer YARN-885). > > Now, to do this it will require a few things: > > * Make sure protobuf 2.5.0 is available in the jenkins box > * A follow up email to dev@ aliases indicating developers should install > locally protobuf 2.5.0 > > Thanks. > > -- > Alejandro
