Hi folks, I wanted to drop a note on the current plan for 3.0.0-alpha3.
The main development tasks targeted for alpha3 is finishing all incompatible changes related to HDFS erasure coding and the Tomcat->Jetty conversion for HTTPFS. This is reflected in the 2017-02-03 status update I wrote on the wiki [1]. Pulling in any of the remaining issues targeted for beta1 would of course also be great. I also updated the target release dates on the main Hadoop 3 wiki page [2] with alpha3 now planned for mid-April. This reflects the amount of must-do HDFS EC JIRAs remaining; we've been making steady progress, but there's still a good number to complete. We're also looking for interested users to help us test the Hadoop 3 releases. alpha2 is a great time to get more involved, since almost all of the big features have landed, and we're planning to freeze compatibility in beta1. So, if you're interested in new Hadoop 3 features like HDFS erasure coding, the shaded client JARs, TSv2, shell script rewrite, etc., please reach out here on common-dev or even to myself or Ray directly if we can assist in any way. Thanks, Andrew [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/HADOOP/Hadoop+3+release+status+updates [2] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/HADOOP/Hadoop+3.0.0+release
