Chris Douglas wrote:
From a technical perspective, nothing has been more destructive to the momentum and focus of this project than the perpetual backporting and development on this branch.
I'm not proposing any more back- or forward-porting than will be done anyway. I'm proposing we commit all the 0.20 security patches to a repo at Apache. This could be as simple as copying Y!'s github repo wholesale to a branch at Apache. Or, with a bit more effort, we can probably apply the patches from Jira in the right order. Otherwise, Cloudera, Facebook and others will have to duplicate this effort. Then bugfix patches and releases can be made against this repo rather than everyone having to assemble and maintain their own 0.20 security patchset from scratch. Everyone will be using this patchset for quite some time. Why shouldn't we share a repo that contains it?
Doug
