On 15/06/11 19:23, Ted Dunning wrote:
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
you could do synchronised factored releases: if Hadoop ships every 12
months, other things could come out every 4 months against the last
major release, things like Hama could come out monthly while in the
rapidly evolving state.
