+1 to dropping Hadoop 0.20.2 support in Hive 0.13, which given that Hive 0.12 has just branched means it isn't likely that Hive 0.13 will come out in the next 6 months.
-- Owen On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Brock Noland <br...@cloudera.com> wrote: > First off, I have to apologize, I didn't know there would be such > passions on both sides of the 0.20.2 argument! > > On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Edward Capriolo <edlinuxg...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > That rant being done, > > No worries man, Hadoop versions are something worth ranting about. > IMHO Hadoop has a history of changing API's and breaking end users. > However, I feel this is improving. > > > we can not and should not support hadoop 0.20.2 > > forever. Discontinuing hadoop 0.20.2 in say 6 months might be reasonable, > > but I think dropping it on the floor due to a one line change for a > missing > > convenience constructor is a bit knee-jerk. > > Very sorry if I came across with the opinion that we should "drop > 0.20.2 now" because of the constructor issue. The issue brought up > 0.20.2's age in my mind and the logical next step is to ask how long > we plan on supporting it! :) I like the time bounding idea and I feel > 6 months is reasonable. FWIW, the 1.X series is stable for my needs. > > Brock >
