On 31/01/2010, at 11:57 AM, Stack wrote: > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Joydeep Sarma <jsensa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> fwiw - i agree with Dhruba's take. i can't imagine (for example) >> hadoop shipping without hadoop-streaming (which is contrib). and it's >> awesome that hadoop changes that break streaming are caught early and >> often. > > I suggest that contribs we deem critical should be pulled up out of > contrib and moved up to core. >>
You may wish to also consider not putting it _into_ core, but making a standalone module by itself, effectively promoting it to a 'top-level' Hbase module (still dependent on, say, a hbase-core module). pretty simple to do, certainly with a Maven-based system (check out HBASE-2099 progress if anyone is interested, it's particularly just a directory move for me). Going towards an-ever-larger-core bundle could lead to 'fat-binary syndrome', and you may start leading to a cycle dependency problem that will make refactoring difficult. Having it in contrib as a layer in someway gives a nice layer isolation. worth considering? cheers, Paul
