On 12/06/2010 02:40 PM, Chris Douglas wrote:
It is nonsense to assert that every PMC member has the right to block work because it conflicts with their personal vision [ ... ]
This is the way Apache projects operate. It requires that folks listen to criticism and potentially accept compromises if they wish to make progress. If folks cannot reach consensus in an area then that area will not make progress.
On the vote: I'm +1 on supporting library/platform code in the Hadoop project, particularly in MapReduce. Reducing MR to a distributed sort implementation is not a direction I'm interested in.
I am interested in having this project primarily deliver a reliable, efficient MapReduce kernel implementation. That's the core functionality that folks seek to not recreate. The project should focus on a minimal, low-level MapReduce API for this kernel and permit other projects to build higher-level abstractions.
Doug
