I've created a release candidate for hadoop-0.23.0 that I would like to release.
It is available at: http://people.apache.org/~acmurthy/hadoop-0.23.0-rc0/ hadoop-0.23 has significant new features: HDFS Federation and NextGen MapReduce being the highlights. It's also very early in the 0.23 life-cycle and the release is distinctly 'alpha' quality and is not intended to be stable release right-away. The plan is to deploy this to smallish (500+ nodes) clusters and to start hardening it. This should also help downstream projects (Pig, Hive, HBase) start testing against the 0.23 line. Expect to see more bug-fix releases of the branch-0.23 in the forthcoming weeks (0.23.1 etc.) Please try the release and vote; the vote will run for the usual 7 days. thanks, Arun
