See comments below: > -----Original Message----- > From: stack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 8:14 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Java6 > > Jim Kellerman wrote: > > We need to support hadoop-0.18, however hadoop is making > major changes in 0.19 such as requiring Java6. > > > > Should we: > > - not support 0.17 at all and go to 0.18? > > > I think that there should be an hbase offering for every > hadoop release. > > > - build a release (0.3.0) that targets hadoop-0.18 but > incorporates no new features or bug fixes? > > > > > Or I'd vote for the following option: > > - Let 0.3.0 run a short development cycle to add some small > set of features and release it with 0.18.
At a minimum this should include 678, 698 and esp 728, all of which I have patches for once our hands are untied. > Target 0.4.0 for hadoop 0.19. Yes.
