On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 12:03 PM Josh Elser <els...@apache.org> wrote:
> > > On 11/17/17 10:32 AM, Christopher wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 8:21 AM Josh Elser<els...@apache.org> wrote: > > > >> Did you offer to make the release? See me with commons-vfs a time back. > >> > >> > > The current issue with Thrift is not the point. The problems we've > > encountered with Thrift were was provided as background context only. > > I seriously think you are avoiding all of the good that Thrift provides > us for the sake of a platform to discuss your distaste. Take a look at > the amount of code that makes up Hadoop's or HBase's RPC implementations > and the corresponding (often nasty) bugs that have come up over the years. > > That's really not it. I'm just trying to have a discussion about what alternatives *might* be better. The answer might be nothing. I'm okay with that. I just want to discuss as a group. > There are numerous things which Thrift continues to do very well that > have never become problems for us in Accumulo. Having seen the other > side of the fence, I would happily take Thrift (warts and all) any day > over the alternatives. > > I have not had the luxury of having experience with many alternatives. Since my intention here is to solicit that kind of perspective, I'd love to hear more about your experiences with possible alternatives, and where they might be better or worse than Thrift for Accumulo. > >> Your proposal seems to me like you're blowing the situation out of > >> proportion. > >> > >> > > I haven't proposed we do anything beyond "consider" or "discuss". I don't > > think "consider" or "discuss" are "out of proportion", even if Thrift had > > zero problems. > > /me blinks. Ok then. >
