Folks, With hadoop-2.3 nearly done, I think it's time to think ahead to hadoop-2.4. I think it was a good idea to expedite release of 2.3 while we finished up pieces that didn't make it in such as HDFS Caching & Support for Heterogenous Storage.
Now, most of the key pieces incl. Resource Manager Automatic Failover (YARN-149), Application History Server (YARN-321) & Application Timeline Server (YARN-1530) are either complete or very close to done, and I think we will benefit with an extended test-cycle for 2.4 - similar to what happened with 2.2. To provide some context: 2.2 went through nearly 6 weeks of extended testing and it really helped us push out a very stable release. I think it will be good to create a 2.4 branch ASAP and start testing. As such, I plan to cut the branch early next week. With this, we should be good shape sometime to release 2.4 in mid-March. I've updated https://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Roadmap to reflect this. Also, we should start thinking ahead to 2.5 and what folks would like to see in it. If we continue our 6-week cycles, we could shoot to get that out in April. Thoughts? thanks, Arun -- Arun C. Murthy Hortonworks Inc. http://hortonworks.com/ -- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE NOTICE: This message is intended for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is confidential, privileged and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any printing, copying, dissemination, distribution, disclosure or forwarding of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete it from your system. Thank You.
