On Jan 14, 2011, at 11:16 AM, Tsz Wo (Nicholas), Sze wrote: > 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.
Critical in my mind was my statement: "We're a long way from releasing these 3 projects independently. Given that, they should be branched and released as a unit." This can not be enforced given the current svn layout. Other's can weigh in with additional thoughts. > 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. What do you see as the huge impact? Nige
