On Aug 29, 2012, at 10:02 AM, Suresh Srinivas wrote: > I am +1 for splitting up the projects. This is the step in the right > direction. There will be challenges along the way. I am confident we can > solve them. > > Robert and Alejandro have brought up good questions. Here are my thoughts: > - For first one or two releases all the projects can coordinate and do the > releases together. This should help simplify the immediate work needed. > This should also help in us meeting the release timelines that we are > working towards. As the split makes progress, this cross project > coordination will no longer be necessary. I volunteer to RM these releases > and do the needed co-ordination from HDFS.
+1 seems like a reasonable first step. Thanks for volunteering Suresh. > - As regards to APIs, currently we have LimitedPrivate APIs for related > projects. This has been used by HBase as well. We need to think about a > timeline by when we can mark these APIs stable. They should remain > LimitedPrivate. Any rare changes to APIs requires only co-ordination among > the projects and no user applications (which we have not control over) is > affected. Agreed. Arun
