On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Allen Wittenauer <[email protected]> wrote: > > On May 10, 2010, at 10:18 AM, Stack wrote: >> The above is a fallacious setup. How does a branch in 0.20 detract >> from the 0.21 momentum (The append feature that we'd work on in 0.20 >> branch has little relation to how append works in 0.21). > > There are X amount of hours that people can put into Hadoop. If Y amount > goes into 0.20-append, then 0.21 is now left with X-Y. X-Y < X. > >>> I'd rather have the HBase folks put pressure on the Hadoop PMC to get 0.21 >>> out the door than create a custom-to-be-thrown-away-in-less-than-a-year >>> branch. This way we *all* benefit rather than a select, but vocal group. >> >> We're all behind 0.21. Its the future. > > Great. Start using the time you'd put into 0.20-append into 0.21 and then > we'll all be in a better place.
That's not how it works though - people have adopted and use Hadoop 0.20 because of the fact that people like Yahoo, Facebook, etc run it on multi-thousand node clusters and have done so for months (or soon to be years now).
