On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Steve Loughran <ste...@apache.org> wrote: >> 1300 lines: heavily modified versions of Hadoop BloomFilters > > -any plan to contribute back to hadoop-core, or are they too incompatible > now? > > >> 419 lines: modified Hadoop TeraSortIngest to sort data using Accumulo >> 325 lines: our Value is an immutable version of Hadoop BytesWritable > > -any plan to contribute back to hadoop-core? >... > I understand why you've forked off your own versions of some of the Hadoop > and HBase core -it is not only your right, it gets the changes in on your > schedule. I have been known to do this myself. >
Without derailing this thread too much, just to put things in perspective: HBase has a fork of Hadoop's IPC. This makes up about 4000 lines of HBase's code. It's not a big deal. That's why we like the Apache license. Good engineers should always be evaluating the tradeoffs between staying with mainline and having to maintain a fork of a particular piece of code. Sometimes the latter makes sense, even within two closely-related projects. -Todd -- Todd Lipcon Software Engineer, Cloudera --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
