On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Enis Söztutar <[email protected]> wrote:
> Great work. > > How will we effectively communicate that this release can eat your computer > (developer release)? Any pointers from the last 0.89 attempt? > > I can add to the head of this document, http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hbase/HBaseVersions, either a pointer or text discussing of how 0.95 and how it could eat your brain so be sure to wear your tin-foil hat before downloading:. We need to keep up the messaging too wherever it is mentioned. Our 0.89 messaging was really effective. We repeatedly talked of how all guarantees were off and that you should not run it in production..... and then fb went and deployed messages on an 0.89 (smile). > Going to hbase.apache.org -> Downloads -> might directly lead users to > download 0.95, and play with it. Should we add something to the home page? > Yeah. Let me do that after we get RC over a vote. We could put it up and edit the HEADER.html so flashing warnings but also encouraging folks to try it and give us feedback. St.Ack
