On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 02:04AM, Konstantin Shvachko 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.
I think this is a grand idea! 0.22 is very close to the stable state. On the other hand there's no indication of how soon the community can expect to get 0.23 out. I will be happy to offer any help to complete 0.22, Konstantin! Cos > 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 > >
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