On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Andrew Purtell <[email protected]> wrote:
> Some time has elapsed since that discussion, I think we should do it again. > > Go for it Andrew. Would suggest you tag it on to the tail of the old discussion or at least reference the old in your setup. > 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. > > Agreed. > 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. > > You call it a 'feature release'. I see it as we can't release until pb'ing is done (and, pb'ing can't make hbase N times slower than it was previously -- smile). St.Ack
