I guess they saw that Drill wanted it :D

On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Timothy Chen <[email protected]> wrote:
> About time!
>
> Tim
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: Alejandro Abdelnur <[email protected]>
>> Date: August 7, 2013, 9:49:27 AM PDT
>> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, 
>> "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, 
>> "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, 
>> "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Upgrade to protobuf 2.5.0 for the 2.1.0 release, HADOOP-9845
>> Reply-To: [email protected]
>>
>> I' like to upgrade to protobuf 2.5.0 for the 2.1.0 release.
>>
>> As mentioned in HADOOP-9845, Protobuf 2.5 has significant benefits to
>> justify the upgrade.
>>
>> Doing the upgrade now, with the first beta, will make things easier for
>> downstream projects (like HBase) using protobuf and adopting Hadoop 2. If
>> we do the upgrade later, downstream projects will have to support 2
>> different versions and they my get in nasty waters due to classpath issues.
>>
>> I've locally tested the patch in a pseudo deployment of 2.1.0-beta branch
>> and it works fine (something is broken in trunk in the RPC layer YARN-885).
>>
>> Now, to do this it will require a few things:
>>
>> * Make sure protobuf 2.5.0 is available in the jenkins box
>> * A follow up email to dev@ aliases indicating developers should install
>> locally protobuf 2.5.0
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> --
>> Alejandro

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