Re: Regarding 'branch-0.20-security'

2011-09-30 Thread Praveen Sripati
Steve, > That said. the new MR engine in 0.23 means that changes to the mapreduce classes can't be backported from trunk to 0.20.x. Changes there should go into 0.22 and then into 0.20-security. As far as I know, 0.22/0.20-security are on the old MR engine and 0.23/trunk are on the new MR Engine.

Re: Regarding 'branch-0.20-security'

2011-09-28 Thread Steve Loughran
On 28/09/11 15:25, Robert Evans wrote: It is kind of a long history and I will try to leave out all of the politics involved to make it shorter. For a long time 0.20 has been the stable release of Hadoop. It is supposedly in sustaining releases now, but many new features keep going in becaus

Re: Regarding 'branch-0.20-security'

2011-09-28 Thread Robert Evans
It is kind of a long history and I will try to leave out all of the politics involved to make it shorter. For a long time 0.20 has been the stable release of Hadoop. It is supposedly in sustaining releases now, but many new features keep going in because that is what most people use in product