Hi! Now that Hadoop 2.0.4-alpha is released I'd like to open up a discussion on what practical steps would it take for us as a community to get Hadoop 2.X from alpha to beta?
There's quite a few preconditions to be met for a piece of software to reach beta status. Quite a few of them are now being discussed in a neighboring thread 'Compatibility in Apache Hadoop' ( http://s.apache.org/VE1 ) but I'd like to kick off a broader discussion: what do you think a *complete* list should look like, before we can honestly signal this change to the rest of the world. It would be very nice if the things that are offered as part of the criteria are easily quantifiable, but lets brainstorm first anyway. We can always stack-rank and quantify later. Please reply to the thread with your suggestions. At some point, I will start collating them on a wiki, but ML is easier when it comes to reply-in-thread. Thanks, Roman.
