On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Stack <[email protected]> wrote: > > That said, I think we should make up a list of what people want to see > in, > > and what could/should be excluded after we find that consensus. > > > > > High-level, we have had this discussion IMO ([3]). Would you like to do it > again Andrew? > > Otherwise, I think folks need to bubble up critical issues (or strike them > down) and if any controversial, lets discuss them? >
Some time has elapsed since that discussion, I think we should do it again. For example, the notion of running on JDK 7 is new, and depends on other communities because quite a bit seems broken on JDK 7 so I hear. The creep of "-Djava.net.preferIPv4=true" among Hadoop ecosystem projects is also a concern, and it bothers me that HDFS tests seem DOA without it on my dev box, so this also isn't something we are going to be able to solve entirely on our own. So while I think these are serious concerns, I have mixed feelings about them being prerequisites for a 0.96 release. A bunch of hard thoughtful intermingled work is underway in RPC and HFile and other places, so that we only need to do a "singularity" once. We should do a feature based release for this, not a time based one, is my opinion. As for everything else, setting a target and seeing what falls in or out based on that is worth doing. -- Best regards, - Andy Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein (via Tom White)
