On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Owen O'Malley <[email protected]> wrote: > Here's an updated release candidate for 0.20.203.0. I've incorporated the > feedback and included all of the patches from 0.20.2, which is the last > stable release. I also fixed the eclipse-plugin problem. > > The candidate is at: http://people.apache.org/~omalley/hadoop-0.20.203.0-rc1/ > > Please download it, inspect it, compile it, and test it. Clearly, I'm +1. > > -- Owen
While rc2 is an improvement on rc1, I am -1 on this particular rc. Rationale: This rc contains many patches not yet committed to trunk. This would cause the next major release (0.22) to be a feature regression against our latest stable release (203), were 0.22 released soon. This rc contains many patches not yet reviewed by the community via the normal process (jira, patch against trunk, merge to a release branch). I think we should respect the existing community process that has been used for all previous releases. This rc introduces a new development and braching model (new feature development outside trunk) and Hadoop versioning scheme without sufficient discussion or proposal of these changes with the community. We should establish new process before the release, a release is not the appropriate mechanism for changing our review and development process or versioning . I do support a release from branch-0.20-security that follows the existing, established community process. Thanks, Eli
