On 5 December 2012 02:00, Radim Kolar <h...@filez.com> wrote: > > Agree. Want to write some? >> > Its not about writing patches, its about to get them committed. I have > experience that getting something committed takes months even on simple > patch. I have about 10 patches floating around none of them was committed > in last 4 weeks. They are really simple stuff. I haven't tried to go with > some more elaborated patch because Bible says: if you fail easy thing, you > will fail hard thing too. > > There is inertia; nobody is happy with it -but that's the price of having something that's designed to keep PB of data safe.
> I am thinking day by day that i really need to fork hadoop otherwise there > is no way to move it forward where i need it to be. > A lot of the early hadoop projects chose this path. Once you get out of sync with the apache code you have two problems -keeping your branch up to date with all fixes and features you want. -testing