On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Jonathan Hsieh <j...@cloudera.com> wrote: > Note: I've only done a quick look at the jira and the code. The high level > design document/approach seems reasonable and I think most agree that this > is a useful feature and that a lot of effort has gone into it. >
Agreed. > The feature is off by default -- I can see one main difference in this > situation compared to other major newish generally-considered experimental > or incomplete features (replication, off-heap slab cache, online schema > changes). This feature doesn't have one of the current HBase committers > using/testing it in their production environments or in their test > environment. > A couple of the lads are shaping up to back this feature. > This seems perfect for *a feature branch* as we talked briefly about at the > Pow-wow. There seem to be some problems identified that will result in > follow on issues (races mentioned). Using a branch would: > * make it available at apache allows devs to test it > * allows a committer who is championing this to test it by using it more > and to iron out glaring problems in environment, > * encourages and shepards the contributor allowing them to justify > continued effort, > * allows all of us to defer the decision to fold the feature into 0.94 (or > 0.96, or later) when more folks are familiar or comfortable with it. > Agree. > Who knows, maybe some of the TaoBao folks will eventually become committers. > Looking forward to the day.... St.Ack
