Alejandro
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On Aug 8, 2013, at 15:34, Roman Shaposhnik <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'd be huge +1 on a flag day migrating us to 2.5.x.
> 
> We can run a set of validation tests in Bigtop on all components
> that could be affected by it. Hadoop and HBase are the obvious
> suspects. What else in the ecosystem could be affected?
> 
> Thanks,
> Roman.
> 
> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Elliott Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
>> In HBase land we've pretty well discovered that we'll need to have the
>> same version of protobuf that the HDFS/Yarn/MR servers are running.
>> That is to say there are issues with ever having 2.4.x and 2.5.x on
>> the same class path.
>> 
>> Upgrading to 2.5.x would be great, as it brings some new classes we
>> could use.  With that said HBase is getting pretty close to a rather
>> large release (0.96.0 aka The Singularity) so getting this in sooner
>> rather than later would be great.  If we could get this into 2.1.0 it
>> would be great as that would allow us to have a pretty easy story to
>> users with regards to protobuf version.
>> 
>> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Kihwal Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Sorry to hijack the thread but, I also wanted to mention Avro. See 
>>> HADOOP-9672.
>>> The version we are using has memory leak and inefficiency issues. We've 
>>> seen users running into it.
>>> 
>>> Kihwal
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: Tsuyoshi OZAWA <[email protected]>
>>> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>>> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>; 
>>> "[email protected]" <[email protected]>; 
>>> "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>>> Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2013 1:59 AM
>>> Subject: Re: Upgrade to protobuf 2.5.0 for the 2.1.0 release, HADOOP-9845
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> About Hadoop, Harsh is dealing with this problem in HADOOP-9346.
>>> For more detail, please see the JIRA ticket:
>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-9346
>>> 
>>> - Tsuyoshi
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 1:49 AM, Alejandro Abdelnur <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> I' like to upgrade to protobuf 2.5.0 for the 2.1.0 release.
>>>> 
>>>> As mentioned in HADOOP-9845, Protobuf 2.5 has significant benefits to
>>>> justify the upgrade.
>>>> 
>>>> Doing the upgrade now, with the first beta, will make things easier for
>>>> downstream projects (like HBase) using protobuf and adopting Hadoop 2. If
>>>> we do the upgrade later, downstream projects will have to support 2
>>>> different versions and they my get in nasty waters due to classpath issues.
>>>> 
>>>> I've locally tested the patch in a pseudo deployment of 2.1.0-beta branch
>>>> and it works fine (something is broken in trunk in the RPC layer YARN-885).
>>>> 
>>>> Now, to do this it will require a few things:
>>>> 
>>>> * Make sure protobuf 2.5.0 is available in the jenkins box
>>>> * A follow up email to dev@ aliases indicating developers should install
>>>> locally protobuf 2.5.0
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks.
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Alejandro

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