Hi Arun, (Changed the subject line, as I seem to recall that we are not supposed to have discussion in a voting thread)
Dumb question perhaps, but why call it "0.23.0" instead of "0.23.0-alpha1" if it is distinctly alpha quality? I've seen lots of folks on the support list who are obviously in over their head because they started with the latest release posted on the webpage, regardless of whether the project considered it a stable release. By adding "-alpha1", it's still available to upstream projects but ought to scare away the inexperienced. Thanks, Brian On Nov 1, 2011, at 4:47 AM, Arun C Murthy wrote: > 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
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