I think the PMC should abandon the thriftfs HDFS contrib component. It's last meaningful contribution was it's original commit in August 2008:
HADOOP-3754. Add a thrift interface to access HDFS. (dhruba via omalley) There are 5 unresolved contrib/thriftfs issues in Jira, 1 of them Patch Available since November 2009 (HDFS-789). Here is my +1. Nige
