I was going off of what I read in HADOOP-3676 (which lacks a reference as well). But I guess if a release can be made from the incubator, then it's not a blocker.
JVS On Feb 3, 2011, at 3:29 PM, Alex Boisvert wrote: > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:38 AM, John Sichi <jsi...@fb.com> wrote: > Besides the fact that the refactoring required is significant, I don't think > this is possible to do quickly since: > > 1) Hive (unlike Pig) requires a metastore > > 2) Hive releases can't depend on an incubator project > > I'm not sure what you mean by "can't depend on an incubator project" here. > AFAIK, there is no policy at Apache that projects should not depend on > incubator projects. Can you clarify what you mean and why you think such a > restriction exists? > > alex >
