Chris, I'm curious is having a GCS fs implementation in the main Hadoop repo the right choice? As mentioned by Steve, Hadoop release cadence tends to be slow. There's a lot of legacy code so release work is usually a multi month effort. Have you considered having it in a separate repo?
On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 4:25 PM Chris Nauroth <cnaur...@apache.org> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have created a new HADOOP-19343 feature branch for ongoing development of > a GCS FileSystem implementation. > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-19343 > > https://github.com/apache/hadoop/tree/HADOOP-19343 > > This feature is targeting Apache Hadoop 3.5.0. Ongoing development of the > GCS FileSystem can target this branch. I'll also perform periodic rebases > to the tip of trunk. I expect the risk of merge conflicts will be low, > because this is introducing a new, isolated sub-module. > > Thank you. > > Chris Nauroth >
