On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Edward Capriolo <edlinuxg...@gmail.com>wrote:
> I am not fine with dropping it. I still run it in several places. > The question is not whether you run Hadoop 0.20.2, but whether you are likely to install Hive 0.12 on those very old clusters. > > Believe it or now many people still run 0.20.2. I believe (correct me If I > am wrong) facebook is still running a heavily patch 0.20.2. > It is more accurate to say that Facebook is running a fork of Hadoop where the last common point was Hadoop 0.20.1. I haven't heard anyone (other than you in this thread) say they are running 0.20.2 in years. > I could see dropping 0.20.2 if it was a huge burden but I do not see it > that way, it work's it is reliable, and it is a known quantity. > It is a large burden in that we have relatively complicated shims and a lack of testing. Unless you are signing up to test every release on 0.20.2 we don't have anyone doing the relevant testing. -- Owen
