+1 for 0.20.2xx as 1.0. mahadev
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Sharad Agarwal <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 > > remembering and understanding current release numbering and attributing it > to stable/compatible etc. is really painful. > > > On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 3:41 AM, Arun C Murthy <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Folks, >> >> Apache Hadoop has come a long way since our humble beginnings. As a >> community we've made significant progress, even in 2011 - we've had 3 >> releases off the branch-0.20-security (0.20.205 being the latest) and we >> just released 0.23.0 last week, our first major release off trunk in a >> while. >> >> With hadoop-0.20.205 we finally have an Apache release with both security >> and HBase support, both critical for the growing ecosystem. >> >> With that, I think it's time to call it as hadoop-1.0. The 1.0 moniker has >> something we've wanted for a while and I think it's time for us to just >> ship it. Linus did something similar with GNU/Linux 3.0. >> >> Yes, we could add more features or better it along many dimensions (ala >> hadoop-0.23), but right now we have a pretty decent piece of software i.e. >> the feature set in hadoop-0.20.205 is compelling and widely used. We could >> call hadoop-0.23 (or 0.22) as 2.0 etc. I do think we, as a community, can >> support compatibility in the hadoop-1.x series, which is the essential >> ingredient. This isn't a brand new idea, Doug suggested this a long while >> ago. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> thanks, >> Arun >> >> >> >> >
