Todd, Good to have you weigh in on this. You provide a good counterweight.
To take a new hypothetical, suppose that one of the many, many patches that Cloudera has championed for Hadoop is critical for Hbase operation or makes Hbase faster. Is it reasonable to answer a question of the form "Is HDFS-xxx fixed?" with "Fixed in CDH, followups off-list"? That seems to be important information for not just the original poster but others who may have the same problem. What is the consensus on that? On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Todd Lipcon <[email protected]> wrote: > > Another answer that I want to underscore is "MapR supports Hbase. A > lot." > > > > The issue is that I might be then tempted to start arguing that Cloudera > Enterprise supports HBase better than MapR. Then we devolve into an > annoying > vendor war which doesn't help anyone. > > Best to just set a policy and stick to it for public responses. I don't see > anything wrong with your replying off-list to the requester with a sales > pitch. This provides the information that might help the user without > risking polluting the -user list with a lot of discussion of commercial > products. >
