> > I'd like to get rid of Common. It could either be merged into HDFS or > > gradually whittled away to nothing. I'd prefer the latter. If we move > > to different RPC and serialization systems (e.g., Avro) then Common's > > io, and ipc packages might be removed. Configuration might be > > replaced/merged with Jakarta Commons Configuration > > (http://commons.apache.org/configuration/). Similarly, the metrics and > > fs packages might be moved to Jakarta Commons. Such changes might be > > hard to do back-compatibly, however. > > Great idea. We should do this. >
Cool, created https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6909 to track.
