On Feb 17, 2011, at 10:23 AM, Bernd Fondermann wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 14:58, Ian Holsman <had...@holsman.net> wrote: >> Hi Bernd. >> >> On Feb 17, 2011, at 7:43 AM, Bernd Fondermann wrote: >>> >>> We have the very unfortunate situation here at Hadoop where Apache >>> Hadoop is not the primary and foremost place of Hadoop development. >>> Instead, code is developed internally at Yahoo and then contributed in >>> (smaller or larger) chunks to Hadoop. >> >> This has been the situation in the past, >> but as you can see in the last month, this has changed. >> >> Yahoo! has publicly committed to move their development into the main code >> base, and you can see they have started doing this with the 20.100 branch, >> and their recent commits to trunk. >> Combine this with Nige taking on the 0.22 release branch, (and sheperding it >> into a stable release) and I think we have are addressing your concerns. >> >> They have also started bringing the discussions back on the list, see the >> recent discussion about Jobtracker-nextgen Arun has re-started in >> MAPREDUCE-279. >> >> I'm not saying it's perfect, but I think the major players understand there >> is an issue, and they are *ALL* moving in the right direction. > > I enthusiastically would like to see your optimism be verified. > Maybe I'm misreading the statements issued publicly, but I don't think > that this is fully understood. I agree though that it's a move into > the right direction.
I also hope to see more as well... and hopefully we will start seeing more and more of this from everyone. > > Bernd
