Arun, Thanks for rolling a release candidate!
Initial observations: * Checksums and signature are good. * The license, notice and readme files are hard to find and are duplicated. I think they need to be at the top-level. * There is no changes file for MapReduce. * The source is not included. This is an absolute requirement for all Apache releases. * Are the binary artifacts published to the Maven staging repo? That would be helpful for testing. * The tag at http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hadoop/common/tags/release-0.23.0-rc0/ looks good. Cheers, Tom On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 2:47 AM, Arun C Murthy <[email protected]> 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
