On 21 May 2013 23:47, Jagane Sundar <jag...@sundar.org> wrote: > I see one significant benefit to having Release Plan votes: Fewer releases > with more members of the community working on any given release. > In turn, fewer Hadoop releases implies less confusion for end users > attempting to download and use an Apache Hadoop release. > > If there are a dozen different releases of Apache Hadoop available for > download at the Apache Hadoop website, end users will go to a commercial > vendor packaged version of Hadoop. That is not good for the Apache Hadoop > community as a whole. > > Jagane >
I agree we don't want fragmentation; you don't want to have to choose between hadoop-2.1, hadoop-2.1.stevel-may and hadoop-2.1.stevel-june. With a vote on artifact releases, this can be prevented. I am free to create my -may and -june artifacts, but the PMC -it is just the PMC right?- get to say "no steve, you can't ship this from the apache.org" site, though I am free to make my own (which I have done in the past & put into my own RPMs. No need for a vote if I do it on my own site, though I did make sure I named the JARs and RPMs something else so that maven builds didn't get confused.
