Hi Konstantine, I've never advocated 21 or 22 since I've never been able to volunteer help to work on them.
I think it's great if you want to run another branch, do testing etc. But given that it's neither complete, stable nor the latest majority supported project I think the expectation should be that the RM / community behind 22 should take responsibility for backporting whatever patches they care about from trunk or 23. (just like 0.20.20*) Also just like 20 the age is irrelevant, what maters is what folks are volunteering to work on. I support you volunteering to do whatever interests you. I'm marshaling help for 20 & 23 because these seem like the best ways to address the needs of the widest community IMO. Cheers, --- E14 - typing on glass On Sep 7, 2011, at 2:04 AM, Konstantin Shvachko <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>
