Well, there are two different problems floating around here. Problem 1 is essentially that hadoop doesn't release often enough. Problem 2 is the lack of source on the snapshots.
If you fix #2 with a patch, #1 will still byte you. On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Grant Ingersoll <gsing...@apache.org> wrote: > 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 > > >
