On Jun 17, 2011, at 12:17 AM, Eric Baldeschwieler wrote:
> Yahoo stands ready to help us (the Apache Hadoop Community) turn this new
> release into a stable release by running it through its 9 month test and burn
> in process. The result of that will be another stable release such as 0.18,
> 0.20 or 0.20.203 (hadoop with security).
I'd consider 0.20.203 pseudo-stable. It has some significant
regressions on non-Linux platforms due to libhadoop.so being a dumping ground
for all compiled code. On OS X, hadoop actually lies about things now. Nine
months of testing is useless for those folks if the outcome is another 0.20.203.
> I think this effort will produce a great new Apache Hadoop release for the
> community. I'm starting this thread to collect feedback and hopefully folks'
> endorsement for merging in MR-279 and putting together this new release.
> Feedback please?
For .23, we desperately need to have libhadoop tell the Java code what
it supports rather than just assuming that all the functionality is present if
the library loads. I pretty much consider this a blocking issue.
