I was looking at it from outside of the support issue, but from an industry related topic.
I mean, lets talk about Solaris support. I believe that its still there in the Apache release while none of the commercial distros support it. To your point, I can see how it could confuse some people... On Sep 24, 2012, at 5:58 PM, Arun C Murthy <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sep 20, 2012, at 11:26 AM, Andy Isaacson wrote: > >> If, OTOH, someone is experiencing a problem that is probably down to >> core Hadoop and just happens to be using a particular distro, I think >> user@hadoop is a perfectly reasonable place to discuss that, and >> there's no particular need to hide the fact that a specific distro is >> in use, it's not as if The Name Cannot Be Spoken or something. > > That has it's own shades of gray - different vendors may choose to include > different patch-sets in their distro, even for 'core Hadoop'. > > In such cases, you get issues/bug-reports which are, at best, confusing to > users of Apache Hadoop... etc. > > As Andrew mentioned, it seems simpler to keep things on Apache lists limited > to Apache Hadoop. > > Arun
