Great work Arun, Thanks a lot! I will start verifying this from tomorrow. > > > 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. Since we know the quality about release, why con't the release name itself alpha as Alejandro or others suggested. This will avoid confusions to the users to pick the stable releases later.
Thanks Uma ----- Original Message ----- From: Alejandro Abdelnur <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, November 1, 2011 11:29 pm Subject: Re: [VOTE] Release hadoop-0.23.0-rc0 To: [email protected] > Nice work Arun, thanks. > > A couple comments: > > * Regarding version number, any reason we are not using 0.23.0-alpha1 > (somebody suggested this last night)? > * Regarding Tom's comment about source not included. My > understanding is > that the release should be a source tarball, the -bin tarball is > just a > convenience. The -bin tarball should not have to include the source. > > Thanks. > > Alejandro > > On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Tom White <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 > > >
