Hadoop 2 EE Version 5? On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Doug Cutting <[email protected]> wrote:
> Eli Collins wrote: > >> My concern is more about when the next branch from trunk will be made. >>> >> >> Does there need to be a dependency? >> > > No. I just wanted to note that, from my point of view, releasing from the > existing 0.21 branch is not sufficient, that, regardless, we still need to > release from trunk soon, and we need a schedule going forward for when > future branches from trunk will be made. > > Aside from resolving compatibility issues (more on that below) what we > perhaps need are one or two release master volunteers, for a release based > on trunk and perhaps for a release based on the 0.21 branch. > > > Could the vote on whether 22 is backwards compatible with 20 be >> independent of what we call 1.0? >> > > We minimally need to declare whether releases are major or minor. The > convention has been that all 0.X releases are major, 1.0 is major, 1.1, 1.2, > etc. are minor, 2.0 is major, 2.1, 2.2, etc are minor and so on. We could > amend this convention, but things might get confusing. For example, we > could declare that we just have a sequence of numerically increasing > releases, some major, some minor, but that you can't tell which is which > from the number. Or we could, like Sun did with Java, move the decimal > point, and say that 0.20 is just 2.0, and that, instead of 0.21 our next > release is 2.1. Or we could, as I suggested in my previous message, > retroactively consider 0.20 to be 1.0, and then make our next release 1.1. > None are particularly attractive options. > > Doug >
