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Christopher Tubbs commented on ACCUMULO-1488:
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[~afuchs], it seems to me, if I'm understanding your points correctly, then it
seems your justification can be summarized as "The number of users who will
find these useful to have in the 1.5 line is non-zero, the costs to support
these particular users is less if we include it in the 1.5.1 release, and the
risks are minimal, so why not?"
If we ignore, for the moment, the issue of this practice setting a precedent
(or solidifying one that perhaps began with the proxy and MiniAccumuloCluster,
whose support costs raised the question of whether we should avoid this
practice in the first place), I have no significant objection to this reasoning
on this particular feature.
However, I do have an objection to this kind of justification as a general rule
to the practice of back-porting, so perhaps we can continue the discussion of
establishing a policy to address this practice more efficiently in the future,
outside the narrow scope of this particular ticket. If we come to a consensus
in that arena, we can revisit here.
(Also, I'm not sure the point of mentioning that the patch existed before
committing has any bearing on this exchange, since the issue we're specifically
addressing is which branches the feature was applied to, not the feature
itself. I mention this now, in case it does apply in some way which I did not
understand, then you have an opportunity to clarify its applicability.)
In any case, I thank you for your patience and continued responsiveness to my
objections. I know these conversations can seem to drag on longer than we'd
like, but I think it's a necessary part of this type of collaborative
environment.
> support BigDecimal encoding for basic built-in combiners
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>
> Key: ACCUMULO-1488
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-1488
> Project: Accumulo
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Adam Fuchs
> Fix For: 1.5.1, 1.6.0
>
> Attachments: ACCUMULO-1488.patch
>
>
> Support sum, min, and max operations for decimal numbers using the
> java.math.BigDecimal String encoding and decoding functions
> (BigDecimal.toString() and BigDecimal(String)).
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