On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Steve Loughran <[email protected]> wrote:
> For those people who aren't on the Apache Incubator mailing lists, Tom > White has proposed "BigTop", which is the tooling to integrate the build and > testing of the Apache Hadoop technologies, perhaps eventually to have > coordinated releases. > I will comment on the proposal directly as well, but coordinated releases would be a disaster. Mahout, for one, should not have to wait for Hadoop to have a release. We are already unhappy that we only get two releases a year and want to up that to four. Much better is to have a directed acyclic dependency graph with coherent versioning. That allows projects to stay independent, but still express version requirements. > -It might make sense for the hadoop, pig, hive, hama, mahout, hbase &c > committers to all have access to this, so that they can help evolve the > packaging and functional tests. > > Multi-project access sounds right.
