On 10/12/2011 09:07 AM, Alejandro Abdelnur wrote: > For simplicity (for the build system and for users) I'd prefer a single > binary TAR and a single source TAR.
All that is required for a release is a single source TAR. As an open-source project our product is source code. We may also distribute some derivative binary artifacts as conveniences, but those can be added to the distribution directory by other committers after the release vote as desired. So it's fine if folks want to include, e.g., an HDFS-only binary package for 64-bit linux that's convenient for sites that only wish to run HBase and never run mapreduce jobs, but that's not what we should vote on. Rather voters should evaluate sources. I am +1 for creating a single source tarball for the entire release and +0 for creating any number of binary tarballs for various subsets, platforms, etc. Doug
