I have a feeling we are thinking too much here. The reality is that the Hadoop community was in favor of porting append (fixes?) back to a branch based off hadoop-0.20 a while ago (Dhruba proposed the branch).
I see no reason we can't release it now, under a reasonable release name. As Stack and Ryan have pointed out, we have severely hampered HBase so far. It behooves us to facilitate users of the entire stack to easily access Apache releases. Plus, Stack and co. are volunteering their own time (thanks!). Arun Sent from my iPhone On Dec 24, 2010, at 11:33 AM, "Chris Douglas" <[email protected]> wrote: > Calling it something other than Hadoop would avoid confusing users > (and HBase could then release bug fixes, etc. on its own schedule), > but from how it's been described: this is acknowledging the reality of > the situation, not proposing something radical. > > HBase can be backed by the HBase FooFS and HDFS. If the former can be > retired as a legacy platform that'd be ideal, but Hadoop will have to > earn it. -C > > On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Stack <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Chris Douglas <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Does anything go wrong if HBase were to release the 0.20-append branch >>> as its own product? >>> >> >> This is an interesting notion. We'd host it at hbase.apache.org >> alongside our download? Would that be OK with others? >> St.Ack >>
