Hi Nigel, > As I look more at the impact of the common/MR/HDFS project split on what > and how we release Hadoop, I feel like the split needs an adjustment. Many > folks I've talked to agree that the project split has caused us a splitting > headache. I think 1 relatively small change could alleviate some of that.
Could you elaborate your idea on how the proposed changes would help? What the problems are being addressed? It is not clear to me. You are right that the change is small but the impact is huge. We should first understand what we are getting from the changes before doing it. Thanks. Nicholas