This thread needs [DISCUSS] in the subject. -- Lefty
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 10:58 PM, Owen O'Malley <omal...@apache.org> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 5:25 PM, Szehon Ho <sze...@cloudera.com> wrote: > > > Hadoop 2 has been GA for a little over a year, there is still a fairly > > significant user base that uses hadoop-1 and would not be happy with this > > change. > > > The question isn't whether there are people running Hadoop 1.x, it is > whether those people are likely to install a new version of Hive running on > their old Hadoop cluster. As a point of reference, CDH 4 shipped Hadoop 2.0 > and Hive 0.10 and HDP 2.0 shipped Hadoop 2.0 and Hive 0.12. > > > > Perhaps we can declare it deprecated in some future release (perhaps > 1.3), > > then another release to formally remove it, as was done in HBase. > > > Are you interested in managing a Hadoop 1.x compatible version of Hive? > Maybe we should call the new release Hive 2.0 and enable you to maintain > the Hive 1.x branch with backwards compatibility with Hadoop 1.x. That > would enable the rest of the Hive community to move forward and take > advantage of the powerful new features in Hadoop 2.x. > > .. Owen >
