With proposal from HBASE-22149 committed into hbase-filesystem repo, and with the extra changes proposed in HBASE-22386 and HBASE-22393, our internal tests had shown satisfactory results. It seems functionally usable under the caveat of setting it as the FS for Store Files only, with WALs still on HDFS.
I would like to propose an alpha release for this module, so am starting this discussion to hear/understand if we have a consensus this would be valuable as a release. If so, what would be the base requirements/extra work needed so that we could plan a backlog (Sean Busbey has shared some initial thoughts on his PR comment <https://github.com/apache/hbase-filesystem/pull/1#issuecomment-488665380> ).
