On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Ian Holsman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi St.Ack. > > In general I'm opposed to such a thing. > > There are already 5 Hadoop 20.x releases out there, I don't think there is > a need for another. > Stack is trying to get an Apache version of Hadoop that solves his problem. He's been asking for it for a year now. If the 20-append branch is stable, we should release it. > > 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)? It is of course possible, but no one has done the work to build the version and test it out. As to what to call it, I'm a little hesitant to call it 0.20.3 at this point, since the last time I asked it was considered a fairly risky change. If it goes badly, it would mean an incompatible revert onto a branch that has been stable for 1.5 years. I'd much rather call it 0.20-append.0 and use 0.20.3 for straight bugfixes. -- Owen
