Should be easy enough to submit a patch to Hadoop, no? I can't imagine they are against it, probably just that no one has done it.
On Jan 19, 2010, at 10:48 AM, Drew Farris wrote: > Zhao is looking for the sources for the current hadoop dependency, > which is currently set to 0.20.2-SNAPSHOT. The hadoop-core project > doesn't currently publish source attachments alongside their > snapshots, so the only option would be to pull sources from the > hadoop-core svn repo using the datestamp of the latest snapshot. This > is a pain to maintain because in mahout the hadoop-core snapshots get > updated on an automatic basis. > > I've been digging through the hadoop mailing list archives and can't > find any discussion of publishing attached sources. Is anyone in this > group that familiar enough with this aspect of the hadoop dev process > to comment? If not, I'll go ahead and ask about it on the hadoop-dev > list. > > Mahout should also depend on a fixed, point in time snapshot which > would make the maintenance of a personal copy of the sources easier. > This would cause less problems for mahout devs because the project > would not be building against a moving target and new issues that > potentially appear. > > It is my understanding that we can't depend on 0.20.1 due do bugs in > the release version that have been fixed in the snapshots. > > Drew
