On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Ian Holsman <[email protected]> wrote: > There are already 5 Hadoop 20.x releases out there, I don't think there is a > need for another. (personal opinion, not a veto or speaking as the chair) >
Are you counting other than Apache releases? (I see only 4 here, two of which probably should be removed: http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/apache//hadoop/core/.) > Is there a reason why we couldn't create a hadoop 0.20.3 release that has > this patch inside of it, as well as other fixes that have been applied since > 0.20.2 (~26 patches)? Would this be too much effort for you to RM?.. > I'd like that but my sense is the general populace of hadoopers would think the append/sync suite of patches destabilizing -- append/sync has a long 'history' in hadoop -- and a violation of the general principal that bug fixes only are added on a branch. > I really don't want to come to a^h^h^h^hget out of the situation where we > have multiple releases of 0.20 each with a unique feature. > Sure. The notion has been broached before up on these lists -- e.g. there was talk of a 0.20 Apache release that had security in it -- and at the time folks seemed amenable. Thanks for getting the discussion off the ground, St.Ack
