On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Allen Wittenauer <[email protected]> wrote: > > On May 16, 2011, at 2:09 PM, Eli Collins wrote: >> >> Allen, >> >> There are few things in Hadoop in CDH that are not in trunk, >> branch-20-security, or branch-20-append. The stuff in this category >> is not major (eg HADOOP-6605, better JAVA_HOME detection). > > But that's my point: when is it no longer Apache Hadoop? How major > does a change need to be under the line? In the case of CDH2 and 3, in > order to test it out, I actually had to back out some of Cloudera's > "improvements" in order to even test whereas I didn't under Apache. Is this > another place where we only seem to care about APIs and say to hell with the > rest of the stack? >
I don't think anyone is saying to hell with the rest of the stack, and everyone I've spoken to is on-board with a future release that doesn't require lots of backporting from feature branches. Thanks, Eli
