Thanks Suresh. Adding back other *-dev lists. On Jan 29, 2013, at 1:58 PM, Suresh Srinivas wrote:
> +1 for a release with all the changes that are committed. That way it > carries all the important bug fixes. > > > So, rather than debate more, I had a brief chat with Suresh and Todd. Todd >> suggested calling the next release as hadoop-2.1.0-alpha to indicate the >> incompatibility a little better. This makes sense to me, as long as we are >> clear that we won't make any further *feature* releases in hadoop-2.0.x >> series (obviously we might be forced to do security/bug-fix release). >> > > > We have been incorrectly using point releases to introduce features. Given > there are many features in this release, calling it 2.1.0 instead of 2.0.3 > makes sense. As you said, I am okay with the proposed plan as long as we do > not lapse back to introducing new features in point releases meant for > critical bugs.
