On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 23:19, Owen O'Malley <omal...@apache.org> wrote: > > On Jan 30, 2011, at 7:42 PM, Nigel Daley wrote: > >> Now that http://apache-extras.org is launched >> (https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the_apache_software_foundation_launches) >> I'd like to start a discussion on moving contrib components out of common, >> mapreduce, and hdfs. > > The PMC can't "move" code to Apache extras. It can only choose to abandon > code that it doesn't want to support any longer. As a separate action some > group of developers may create projects in Apache Extras based on the code > from Hadoop. > > Therefore the question is really what if any code Hadoop wants to abandon. > That is a good question and one that we should ask ourselves occasionally. > > After a quick consideration, my personal list would look like: > > failmon > fault injection
This is the best way to kill a project as tightly coupled with the core code as fault injection. So, if you really want to kill it - then move it. > fuse-dfs > hod > kfs > > Also note that pushing code out of Hadoop has a high cost. There are at > least 3 forks of the hadoop-gpl-compression code. That creates a lot of > confusion for the users. A lot of users never go to the work to figure out > which fork and branch of hadoop-gpl-compression work with the version of > Hadoop they installed. > > -- Owen > >
