bq. depends on other communities because quite a bit seems broken on JDK 7 so I hear
I have been running tests using 1.6.0_37 for trunk. Tests run smoothly so far. FYI On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Andrew Purtell <[email protected]> wrote: > 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) >
