Konstantin, Great news! The progress is pretty spectacular I'd say.
I am slowly working on Jetty back-port. Unfortunately, other things require my attention too. Hopefully, it will be finished over next a couple days or so. Cos On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 02:29AM, Konstantin Shvachko wrote: > Hi everybody, > > We reached the homestretch for hadoop-0.22 release. > The testing proceeds very well. > - The builds are building > - HDFS and MR are running under load well now. > - We applied pretty simple custom patches to make Hive (7) and Pig (8) > work with 0.22. > - HBase (92), which is expected to be released in the near future as I > hear, is fully compatible with 0.22. > > There are 4 main items remaining on my plate. > > 1. We are down to four blockers, which represent three issues: > HADOOP-7035. Document incompatible API changes between releases > MAPREDUCE-1100 / 1716. User's task-logs filling up local disks on the > TaskTrackers > HDFS-2498. TestParallelRead times out > > I'd like also to include > HDFS-1900. Clean up config key collision between common and HDFS > and potentially further bug fixes. > > 2. Assemble build is needed. > By assemble build I mean a Jenkins target which produces a tarball > that includes all three sub-projects. It is like a daily build. One of > this builds is assigned to be release a candidate and then the > release. We can do it in traditional way, based on scripts developed > in HADOOP-6846. Or we can try to do it with BigTop. > > 3. Jetty upgrade. > 0.22 branch is on Jetty 6.1.14, while everything else moved to 6.1.26. > Based on experiments I ran with Jetty 6.1.14 tasks hang forever if > things go wrong, while with Jetty 6.1.26 you get a lot of "fetch > failure"s. The latter at least fails fast, and does not need manual > intervention, so I'd go for the upgrade. > > 4. Documentation. > In addition to HADOOP-7035, which according to Tom needs a rerun of > the tool, we need to confirm the documentation is up to date. I think > it is, but re-checking would be good. > > I seek help from the good people of Hadoopland on these last steps. > If you have suggestions for inclusion or plan to help with the items, > please reply to the thread or drop me a line. I understand the next > two weeks will be busy with conferences. I plan to release after > Apachecon by mid November. If the assemble build is ready soon people > will be able to try it early. > > Thanks, > --Konstantin
