> Well, the idea of incubation is to gather a community > (besides the legal aspect). I would suggest to at least > provide more detailed instruction how to get the things > working in the wiki. Or did I miss those?
I was going to put instructions into the release notes once the release is ready. > > >> Why are both hadoop 0.16 and 0.17 included? > > > > The idea was that people can build with 1 version back. > > That sounds like a good idea ..at least in theory :) > > > However, at this > > point it is not possible since hadoop interfaces change > between each > > version. We can remove hadoop16 I think. Do we need to do > this cleanup > > prior to the release? > > It's a bit awkward to have 0.16 in there if you cannot use it at all. Ok. It just if we have to reroll the packages and start process over one more time. I was wondering if this was worth starting over. > (That said I was about to send a question to the dev list about using > 0.16 with pig. I need to get it working with 0.16. Will that > be a major hurdle? But let's discuss that in another thread) It is possible, but you would have to take pre hadoop-17 snapshot of the code. It is quite stable but you would be missing out on the work that has been done since. Olga
