We've done both, even within a branch (0.20.0 was voted on core-dev@ and 0.20.2 on general@). The bylaws suggest general@ should be used, which seems to make sense since we're releasing common, hdfs and mr. I think either works as long as people know where to check.
http://hadoop.apache.org/bylaws.html "Voting Decisions regarding the project are made by votes on the primary project development mailing list (gene...@hadoop.apache.org)" On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Arun C Murthy <a...@hortonworks.com> wrote: > In the past we've carried it out on common-dev: > http://hadoop-common.472056.n3.nabble.com/VOTE-Release-Hadoop-0-21-0-candidate-2-td1181981.html > > Arun > > On Jul 28, 2011, at 5:33 PM, <milind.bhandar...@emc.com> wrote: > >> Somehow I remember that the 0.20.203.0 vote was carried out on general@ >> >> Here is a message from the archive: >> >> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hadoop-general/201105.mbox/browser >> >> - milind >> >> --- >> Milind Bhandarkar >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Arun C Murthy [mailto:a...@hortonworks.com] >> Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 5:27 PM >> To: common-dev@hadoop.apache.org >> Subject: Re: [VOTE] Release 0.20.204.0-rc0 >> >> Nope. general@ is only for announcements. >> >> AFAIK Votes are developer activities. >> >> Arun >> >> On Jul 28, 2011, at 5:11 PM, Aaron T. Myers wrote: >> >>> Shouldn't this vote be taking place on general@, instead of common-dev@? I'm >>> under the impression that that is where all votes are supposed to take >>> place. Please correct me if I am wrong about that. >>> >>> -- >>> Aaron T. Myers >>> Software Engineer, Cloudera >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Giridharan Kesavan >>> <gkesa...@yahoo-inc.com>wrote: >>> >>>> This issue is fixed with Eric's patch for HADOOP-7356. Since Owen is out on >>>> vacation Iam working on getting the release tarball. >>>> >>>> -Giri >>>> >>>> >>>> On 7/28/11 1:56 PM, "Giridharan Kesavan" <gkesa...@yahoo-inc.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Myself and Eric Yang are looking into this. >>>>> -Giri >>>>> >>>>> On 7/28/11 12:04 PM, "Allen Wittenauer" <awittena...@linkedin.com> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Jul 25, 2011, at 7:05 PM, Owen O'Malley wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> I've created a release candidate for 0.20.204.0 that I would like to >>>>>>> release. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> It is available at: >>>> http://people.apache.org/~omalley/hadoop-0.20.204.0-rc0/ >>>>>>> >>>>>>> 0.20.204.0 has many fixes including disk fail in place and the new rpm >>>> and >>>>>>> deb packages. Fail in place allows the DataNode and TaskTracker to >>>> continue >>>>>>> after a hard drive fails. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Is it still failing to build according to Jenkins? >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >> >> > >
