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
