Ted you seem to have picked some random part of this conversation and misunderstood it?
On Tuesday, January 8, 2013, Ted Yu wrote: > User has the flexibility of running 0.96 on jdk 1.6 > > Cheers > > On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Andrew Purtell > <[email protected]<javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > 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:;> > > <javascript:;>> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Stack <[email protected]<javascript:;> > <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) > > > -- Best regards, - Andy Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein (via Tom White)
