What do these two things have to do with each other? On Tuesday, January 8, 2013, Ted Yu wrote:
> 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]<javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Stack <[email protected] <javascript:;>> > 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) > > > -- Best regards, - Andy Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein (via Tom White)
