On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Doug Cutting <cutt...@apache.org> wrote:
> Chris Douglas wrote: > >> Spending the next few months voting and arguing on which >> patches make it into "new" 0.20 (branched in 2008) instead of >> addressing these issues is *not* progress. I strongly oppose this. >> > > If it takes months, it is a failure. It should take weeks, if that. > > Thus far the changes suggested for a 1.0 branch are: > - de-deprecate "classic" mapred APIs (no Jira issue yet) > - add HDFS-200 (improved append) > With HDFS-200 we'd also need HDFS-142, and potentially other fixes yet to be determined (this append work based on 200 is still ongoing). I don't think it will be "stable release" quality within a few weeks. > - add HADOOP-6668 & MAPREDUCE-1623 (audience and stability annotations) > - add MAPREDUCE-1650 (exclude private elements from javadoc) > > Are there other specific issues folks would like to see in this? We could, > e.g., set a 1-week deadline for proposals, 1 week for discussion, and one > week for voting, and roll a candidate in three weeks. > > Would you strongly oppose such a 3-week process? > > Doug > -- Todd Lipcon Software Engineer, Cloudera
