I think that new functionality patches are generally not committed to past releases -- if you want to share the patch, you can just attach it to the original JIRA as 6704-branch20.patch or something similar.
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Neil Bliss <n...@neilbliss.com> wrote: > Hey folks, > > Now that I (finally) have crafted a +1'd patch for HADOOP-6704, I'd like to > do the same thing for the 0.20 branch. Should I do this in the same Jira > ticket or file another ticket specifically for this? > > Thanks for the help, and sorry about all the spam from HADOOP-6704. > > - Neil >