On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 21:40, Eric Baldeschwieler <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jan 17, 2011, at 9:13 PM, Nigel Daley wrote: > >> >> On Jan 14, 2011, at 11:53 AM, Tsz Wo (Nicholas), Sze wrote: >>> > ... >>> Why do we want to enforce the releases as a unit, given that the long term >>> target is to release these 3 projects independently? >> >> Because that long term view is currently a fantasy with no real end in sight. > > ** +1 to that. We release as a unit, branch as a unit, test as a unit, > deploy as a unit. I've seen no actual gain from the project split, just > complexity.
Am I missing something in the latest development of Hadoop, Eric? What do you mean by 'we... test as a unit'? Is it like we have test artifacts version'd against Hadoop release proper? Or you are trying to say something else? It isn't very clear, sorry... Cos >> Nige >> >> >>> ________________________________ >>> From: Nigel Daley <[email protected]> >>> To: [email protected] >>> Sent: Fri, January 14, 2011 11:21:25 AM >>> Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Move project split down a level >>> >>> >>> On Jan 14, 2011, at 11:16 AM, Tsz Wo (Nicholas), Sze wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Nigel, >>>> >>>>> 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. >>>> >>>> Could you elaborate your idea on how the proposed changes would help? >>>> What the >>>> >>>> problems are being addressed? It is not clear to me. >>> >>> Critical in my mind was my statement: "We're a long way from releasing >>> these 3 >>> projects independently. Given that, they should be branched and released >>> as a >>> unit." This can not be enforced given the current svn layout. Other's can >>> weigh >>> in with additional thoughts. >>> >>>> You are right that the change is small but the impact is huge. We should >>>> first >>>> >>>> understand what we are getting from the changes before doing it. >>> >>> What do you see as the huge impact? >>> >>> Nige >> > >
