Thanks for the replies. We'll create a patch for trunk and then include a 0.18 compatible patch with the Jira, as you suggest.
Based on other contributed FileSystem implementations, we were assuming this should go in o.a.h.fs and not contrib, so thanks for the clarification. Jonathan On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Chris Douglas <chris.doug...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> * 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. > > This will not be committed to the 0.18 branch, even if there is an > 0.18.4 release. If you wanted to post an 0.18 compatible patch on the > same JIRA for reference, that's fine, but only patches to trunk will > be considered for inclusion. > > > 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. > > If this is a shim, it should probably live in o.a.h.fs with > S3FileSystem, KosmosFileSystem, etc. rather than being added to > contrib. -C > -- Jonathan Seidman Open Data Group
