On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Suresh Srinivas <sur...@hortonworks.com> wrote: > Eli, I will post a more detailed reply soon. But one small correction: > > > I'm also not sure there's currently consensus on what an incompatible >> change is. For example, I think HADOOP-9151 is incompatible because it >> broke client/server wire compatibility with previous releases and any >> change that breaks wire compatibility is incompatible. Suresh felt it >> was not an incompatible change because it did not affect API >> compatibility (ie PB is not considered part of the API) and the change >> occurred while v2 is in alpha. >> > > This is not correct. I did not say it was not an incompatible change. > It was indeed an incompatible wire protocol change. My argument was, > the phase of development we were in, we could not mark wire protocol > as stable and not make any incompatible change. But once 2.0.5-beta > is out, as had discussed earlier, we should not make further incompatible > changes to wire protocol.
Sorry for the confusion, I misinterpreted your comments on the jira (specifically, "This is an incompatible change: I disagree." and "see my argument that about why this is not incompatible.") to indicate that you thought it was not incompatible. > > -- > http://hortonworks.com/download/
