That sounds like a reasonable approach and valid use of branches to me. Perhaps a set of functional tests could be provided/identified that would help the review process by showing backward compatibility along with new extensions for things like dynamic commands?
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 12:14 PM, Allen Wittenauer <a...@apache.org> wrote: > > Since it’s nearly impossible for me to get timely reviews for some > build and script changes, is it possible for me to setup a branch, self > review+commit to that branch, then request a branch merge? I’m basically > looking at doing this for HADOOP-12857 + HADOOP-12930 and their subtasks > esp since they are very order dependent. I don’t know if a branch is > easier to review, honestly, but at least I wouldn’t be blocked on making > progress... > > Thanks.
