Eli, How many of these patches that you find troublesome are in CDH already?
Regards, Suresh On 5/4/11 3:03 PM, "Eli Collins" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
