>It is perfectly reasonable for Doug (or anyone else) to vote >on a release based on a lack of version history, adequate >description of the sweet meats, or anything else that others >might consider non-technical. This is a release vote! >It does not require consensus. It requires minimal review >(usually meaning three +1s) and a majority opinion of those >on the PMC who choose to review the proposed release and vote.
Roy, Thanks for reminding everyone that a release does not require consensus. Regarding this release, I think anyone who runs a multi-tenant Hadoop cluster will appreciate the user-limits feature that goes a long way to ensure that an errant job does not take the entire cluster down. Your operations and support people will thank you for deploying this release. Recently I was discussing with operations folks at a company that operates a Hadoop cluster based on a commercial distribution of Hadoop, and they were excited to hear that they will have a way of making sure that their cluster will not be taken down by an errant user/job, because that's one big fear that keeps them awake. FWIW, I am +1 for this release. Arun, can you include a document that gives more details about what the limits are, and how to modify your jobs to stay below these limits (I know it is a cut-paste for you :-)? - milind
