Hey all,
This one started as an innocuous thread of enabling JDK7 on trunk and now it
seems like (haven't still finished reading the entire thing, and I started a
while ago) it has become a full blown proposal on 2.x, 3.x and 4.x releases.
Some of us haven't been tracking this (at least me and
On Jun 21, 2014, at 8:01 AM, Andrew Wang wrote:
> This is why I'd like to keep my original proposal on the table: keep going
> with branch-2 in the near term, while working towards a JDK8-based Hadoop 3
> by April next year. It doesn't need to be a big bang release either. I'd be
> delighted if
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 10:02 PM, Arun C Murthy wrote:
> > Hadoop 3.x out the door later this year
>
> +1 that makes sense to me. Thanks for volunteering Steve - I'm glad to
> share the pain… ;-)
Hey Arun, you may have missed that Andrew volunteered for doing this as
well (the thread is long,
After further consideration, here is an alternate.
On Jun 21, 2014, at 11:14 AM, "Arun C. Murthy" wrote:
>
> JDK6 eol was Feb 2013 and, a year later, we are still have customers using it
> - which means we can't drop it yet.
>
> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html
>
> Give
Andrew,
> On Jun 21, 2014, at 8:01 AM, Andrew Wang wrote:
>
> Hi Steve, let me confirm that I understand your proposal correctly:
>
> - Release an intermediate Hadoop 3 a few months out, based on JDK7 and with
> bumped library versions
> - Release a Hadoop 4 mid next year, based on JDK8
>
> I
ozen and tell everyone "move to java 7+", everything
downstream gets updated binaries and a chance to move forwards.
There's another issue, which is one Alejandro highlit:
-- Forwarded message --
From: Alejandro Abdelnur
Date: 10 April 2014 10:30
Subject: Re: Plans o
Hi Steve, let me confirm that I understand your proposal correctly:
- Release an intermediate Hadoop 3 a few months out, based on JDK7 and with
bumped library versions
- Release a Hadoop 4 mid next year, based on JDK8
I question the utility of an intermediate Hadoop 3 like this. Assuming that
it
On Jun 20, 2014, at 9:51 PM, Steve Loughran wrote:
> On 20 June 2014 21:35, Steve Loughran wrote:
>
>>
>> This actually argues in favour of
>>
>> -renaming branch-2 branch-3 after a release
>> -making trunk hadoop-4
>>
>> -getting hadoop 3 released off the new branch-3 out in 2014, effectiv
