Re: [discuss] ending support for Java 6?

2015-04-30 Thread Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
FYI, after enough consideration, we the Hadoop community dropped support for JDK 6 starting release Apache Hadoop 2.7.x. Thanks +Vinod On Apr 30, 2015, at 12:02 PM, Reynold Xin r...@databricks.com wrote: This has been discussed a few times in the past, but now Oracle has ended support for

Re: Should we let everyone set Assignee?

2015-04-22 Thread Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
an inclusive project and we spend a lot of effort culturally to help make newcomers feel welcome. - Patrick On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli vino...@hortonworks.com wrote: Actually what this community got away with is pretty much an anti-pattern compared to every other

Re: Should we let everyone set Assignee?

2015-04-22 Thread Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
I watch these lists, so I have a fair understanding of how things work around here. I don't give direct input in the day to day activities though, like Greg Stein on the other thread, so I can understand if it looks like it came from up above. Apache Members come around and give opinions time

Re: Should we let everyone set Assignee?

2015-04-22 Thread Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
Actually what this community got away with is pretty much an anti-pattern compared to every other Apache project I have seen. And may I say in a not so Apache way. Waiting for a committer to assign a patch to someone leaves it as a privilege to a committer. Not alluding to anything fishy in

Re: Should we let everyone set Assignee?

2015-04-22 Thread Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
requests on github, which is a newer friendlier better model given the constraints. We even have tools that automatically tags a ticket with a link to the pull requests. On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli vino...@hortonworks.commailto:vino...@hortonworks.com wrote

Re: [VOTE] Designating maintainers for some Spark components

2014-11-06 Thread Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
With the maintainer model, the process is as follows: - Any committer could review the patch and merge it, but they would need to forward it to me (or another core API maintainer) to make sure we also approve - At any point during this process, I could come in and -1 it, or give feedback