Owen O'Malley wrote:
In my experience with releasing Hadoop, the bare minimum of scale testing is a couple of weeks on 500 nodes (and more is far better) with a team of people testing it. I think that releasing a 1.0 that has never been tested at scale would be disastrous.
For the record, I never proposed getting a 1.0 release out that had been scale tested in a few weeks. Rather, I proposed getting an alpha 1.0 release out in a few weeks. Bugfix releases from that, after testing, could then be made. My claim was that we might sooner get a stable Apache release that supports append via this route than from trunk.
But, since there is opposition to this proposal, I will abandon it. Doug
