On 8/21/18 12:22 PM, Sean Busbey wrote:
I believe "NT" is already meant to cover the "NP" case. How can we
rephrase it to better cover the meaning you want?
In my mind "not tested" isn't honest because we have many folks who have
been doing testing on Hadoop 3.x versions. There is a very broad
spectrum that is left up to the reader to discern, e.g.
Not Tested: "we haven't done a full round of HBase-grade,
production-readiness testing"
Not Tested: "We don't know if HBase even compiles against that Hadoop
version"
if "S" and "F" are meant to mean "production ready" why don't we just
make that status "production ready" and pick a symbol for it? (maybe a
check mark since this is no longer a plain text document).
I really like Nick's suggestion about a Traffic Light: Green, Yellow,
Red. This would let us spend more time explaining the types of
situations that would cause us to play some "cell" in that box (rather
than make more values to go in that box).
What do you think about this? I would be happy to take this on.
But, then I realized that we don't have a single entry for HBase that implies
it would even work for Hadoop 3.
AFAIK this is still because every release of Hadoop 3 has had some
issue that we know will cause headaches for entry level users of HBase.
(those versions say "X" and not "NT" because of specific problems).
I think we recently determined that 3.0.3 and 3.1.1 don't have a known problem.
Obligatory: I am aware that the chart may also be lagging due to recent
updates. I busted right over that point in my earlier message when I
shouldn't have. That's my fault for not being more clear.
On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 10:12 AM, Josh Elser <els...@apache.org> wrote:
Mich T had cross-posted a question to users@{hbase,phoenix} the only day.
After some more information, we were able to find out that Mich was trying
to use Hadoop 3.1 with HBase 1.2.6
After pointing Mich to the compatibility table[1], I was about to puff out
my chest and say "look! this table could've told you that HBase 1.2.6
wouldn't work with Hadoop 3.x!"
But, then I realized that we don't have a single entry for HBase that
implies it would even work for Hadoop 3. We presently have the following:
"S" = supported
"X" = not supported
"NT" = Not tested
I propose that would should add another "value" for cells in the table to
better represent "Works, but not battle-tested" or similar. That would make
possible values:
"S" = supported
"NP" = not production ready
"X" = not supported
"NT" = not tested
Furthermore, the word "supported" drives me up a wall (as I think it implies
the wrong mindset for an open source community), and I would rather see
"functional". e.g.
"F" = Fully functional, production ready
"NP" = Functional, but not production ready/has known issues
"X" = Not functional, lacking basic ability
"NT" = Not tested, functionality is unknown
Thoughts? Things that I've missed?
- Josh
[1] http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#hadoop
