On Jan 14, 2011, at 8:51 AM, Owen O'Malley wrote:
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> On Jan 13, 2011, at 10:18 PM, Nigel Daley wrote:
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>> Folks,
>>
>> As I look more at the impact of the common/MR/HDFS project split on what and
>> how we release Hadoop, I feel like the split needs an adjustment. Many
>> folks I've talked to agree that the project split has caused us a splitting
>> headache. I think 1 relatively small change could alleviate some of that.
>>
>> CURRENT SVN REPO:
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>> hadoop / [common, mapreduce, hdfs] / trunk
>> hadoop / [common, mapreduce, hdfs] / branches
>>
>> PROPOSAL:
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>> hadoop / trunk / [common, mapreduce, hdfs]
>> hadoop / branches / [common, mapreduce, hdfs]
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>
> Moving the source trees back together is ok, but will cause a fair amount of
> churn for those of us that depend on the git versions of the repository.
> Using Todd's hack may be able to fix it again at least for each individual
> user.
Looks like Todd addressed this. Thanks!
> I assume you meant to propose:
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> hadoop/ {trunk, branches/*, tags/* } / {common, hdfs, mapreduce}
Ya. Thanks for spelling that out more clearly Owen.
> which means that you can make checkouts, branches and tags with a single
> command. Your proposal as stated would break all of the tools that count on
> standard layouts of subversion repositories, such as the subversion to git
> gateways and eclipse.
I'm not much of a git user.
1) subversion to git gateway: break unrepairably?
2) eclipse: break in what way? I use eclipse for other projects structure like
this without a problem.
> We currently have other stuff at the top level of hadoop: hive, logos,
> nightly, pig, site, and zookeeper. Clearly hive, pig, and zookeeper should be
> removed. The others are just versioned and aren't branched. I'm fine with
> leaving them at the top level as "extra" bits, but it should be decided.
+1 to removing/leaving those extra bits as you propose. We can always move the
remainder later if there is a reason to.
I've filed https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-7106 for this reorg.
Cheers,
Nige
