Let me understand this: a) the hbase folks have been required to patch hadoop due to bugs b) they have been doing this for X months now c) we finally have momentum on getting 0.21 out the door d) hey, let's make their life easier and take resources out of 0.21 by creating a branch
Are we willing to create a branch for everyone that asks? What happens if mahout/lucene/solr/joes-random-application asks? Is it a good idea to create a branch that hopefully has a very short life time? Is it the latest fashion amongst the PMC to request random branches? trunk 0.21 0.20 0.20-append 0.20-security-sure-hope-this-turns-into-1.0 0.20-lifecycle-management-stuff-that-seems-to-never-get-committed ... I'm not PMC, but can I make requests too, since I have to patch what we use? 0.20-capacity-scheduler-is-broken-but-we-shipped-it-anyway 0.20-stop-using-bsd-and-gnu-only-extensions-during-forks 0.20-hadoop-devs-cant-spell I'd rather have the HBase folks put pressure on the Hadoop PMC to get 0.21 out the door than create a custom-to-be-thrown-away-in-less-than-a-year branch. This way we *all* benefit rather than a select, but vocal group.
