If you would like to change this consensus now, we can do so, and add it as a release criterion. That would require undoing the comparator cleanups and related breaking changes that went in as HBASE-9245 and subtasks. So let's not. I am -1 on making a change like this late in the day, after we have already had two RCs and I am hoping to get a third out tomorrow.
-- Best regards, - Andy Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein (via Tom White)
