I tried to do some cluster testing of trunk this afternoon/tonight and ran into several issues that blocked my ability to get up and running. Particularly, HBASE-2758, plus the inability to disable a table (forget the JIRA number, but it's up there)
So, unless I hear any big -1s, I think it's best to revert the recent master changes for this dev release branch this week. There's still plenty of new stuff for users to try out, and I think the new master stuff is a bit too unstable yet for users to try. Let's do another dev release in a couple weeks once the new master stuff is more fully baked, and use this one to suss out bugs in all the other new stuff. Again, a reminder that we don't plan to support this branch post-release - it's just a preview for users, so I don't think doing a release without the new master stuff is going to take steam out of continued fixup of these bugs in trunk proper. Sound good by everyone? -Todd On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Todd Lipcon <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey everyone, > > As mentioned before, I'm hoping to have a development release we can talk > up at the Hadoop Summit at the end of this month. > > To that end, I'm planning on branching trunk on Monday to try to go through > some short stabilization testing for a dev release at the end of the week. > I'm happy to do this as an internal branch at Cloudera, and just do a > release for CDH, or I can do a branch on the Apache SVN and an official > Apache release. Does anyone prefer one way or the other? Hopefully I will > branch from the state of trunk on Monday, but if that proves to be too > unstable I may rewind a week or two before the recent master changes, and > then cherry-pick some other fixes on top. > > Note: this release is intended as a "technology preview" - we can get some > users trying out trunk on real clusters early so that we'll have an easier > time releasing when we think we're actually done. I plan on including a list > of known bugs and deficiencies - there's no chance we'll close out all the > blockers or finish the master rewrite, but I think the release will still be > valuable. > > Any thoughts on this? > > Thanks > -Todd > > -- > > Todd Lipcon > Software Engineer, Cloudera > -- Todd Lipcon Software Engineer, Cloudera
