Do we need a vote for creating a development branch? It seems to me that we do not have such votes before. The committer just go ahead creating a branch.
Nicholas ----- Original Message ---- > From: Suresh Srinivas <sures...@yahoo-inc.com> > To: "hdfs-dev@hadoop.apache.org" <hdfs-dev@hadoop.apache.org> > Sent: Thu, August 19, 2010 5:07:14 PM > Subject: [VOTE] New branch for HDFS-1052 development > > I am planning to create a new branch from the trunk for the work related to >HDFS-1052 - HDFS scalability using multiple namenodes/namespaces. Please see >the >jira for more details. Doing the development in a separate branch will reduce >the churn on the trunk. The development will be done incrementally in the new >branch using multiple sub jiras. When the development and testing is complete, > >the changes from this branch will be promoted back to trunk. > Regards, Suresh >