Eric, It would take the same amount of resources to fix 0.22 as to merge append and security branches aka 0.20.205. Although I understand that Hortonworks needs to support its customer(s) and is eager to bridge the gap in functionality with its competitor(s), I think continuing with 0.20 a-three-years-old-technology is not the best place to invest resources. In the past you advocated for 0.21 and 0.22, both now abandoned by your team(s) in favor of enhancing 0.20. It will be sad to see this backward/forward porting going on forever, diverging the Apache Hadoop project from natural evolutionary process.
I think 0.22 has all the functionality required to run Hadoop for most production tasks. I see enough momentum and involvement in the community with 0.22 testing. I think there will be enough resources to get it stabilized in near future. Nigel, your comment can be understood as a request to commit important fixes to the 0.22 branch. I agree with that. But if you choose to abandon the RM role I will volunteer to take it over. Thanks, --Konstantin On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 4:06 AM, Eric Baldeschwieler <[email protected]> wrote: > > What do others think? > > IMO 22 is not the best place to invest resources. I support nigel's > suggestion of abandoning it, but people are free to work on what they are > passionate about. > > E14 > > On Sep 3, 2011, at 11:11 AM, Nigel Daley wrote: > > > Matt, Others, > > > > Is the expectation that these fixes go into other release branches too > > (including 0.22, 0.23) if applicable? > > > > If not, my concern is that 0.22 is regressing further from the popular > > Apache release and I'm inclined to abandon 0.22. Thoughts? > > > > Cheers, > > Nige >
