Hi Jonathan, Responses inline below:
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Jonathan Seidman < jonathan.seid...@opendatagroup.com> wrote: > We're getting ready to contribute our FileSystem implementation for the > Sector DFS (sector.sf.net). Up to now our development and testing has been > against 0.18.3, so our intention was to first integrate with that release > and then work on integrating with the trunk for the next release. A couple > of questions: > * Should we integrate with the 0.18 branch, or just put our changes into > the > 0.18.3 release? We're not sure if there are plans for further releases on > the 0.18 branch. > I believe there are plans for an 0.18.4 release eventually, though a new feature like a new DFS is unlikely to be included. I would concentrate on integrating against trunk rather than a past release. If trunk is inconvenient since it's a moving target, you could integrate against branch-20. While a lot of people are currently using 0.18, I anticipate that most users will be switching over to 0.20 in the next couple of months. > > * Should we create separate Jira's for the two releases, or can we create a > single Jira to cover the 0.18 and trunk releases? > Single JIRA should be fine - just post multiple patches. > Thanks for your help. We'd like to make sure we're facilitating the > process, > so any suggestions are appreciated. > In general you should be aware that you should integrate as a new project in the contrib/ dir. If all goes well you shouldn't need to make any patches that touch Hadoop itself. -Todd
