On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Nigel Daley <nda...@mac.com> wrote: If a reasonable replacement was developed elsewhere, would you change your > vote? I believe some folks were interested in developing this elsewhere. >
It would depend. As I have said before, our goal as a PMC is to produce useful Hadoop releases. Pulling out functionality that users require makes the Hadoop releases less useful. Making users go to 20 different sites to download compatible versions of the different components, although it helps aggregating companies like RedHat, is an anti-goal. That said, if projects are active enough splitting them out into other Apache projects makes sense. Chukwa, HBase, Hive, Hive, Pig, and Zookeeper are wonderful examples of related projects where we've moved them out of Hadoop and their communities are healthier for the move. Moving actively used components into non-Apache managed projects, including Apache Extras, is an anti-goal. -- Owen
