On Feb 11, 2011, at 9:48 AM, Allen Wittenauer wrote: > > On Feb 10, 2011, at 6:51 PM, Nigel Daley wrote: > >> I think the PMC should abandon the hod common contrib component. It's last >> meaningful contribution was February 2009: >> >> HADOOP-2898. Provide an option to specify a port range for Hadoop services >> provisioned by HOD. Contributed by Peeyush Bishnoi. >> >> There are 44 unresolved contrib/hod issues in Jira, 1 of them Patch >> Available since November 2009 (HADOOP-6369). > > -1 > > a) I don't think hod is actually part of any unit tests, so including it > would likely only be a burden on the tarball size.
Not true. HOD has python unit tests and is the reason our builds have dependencies on python. > b) The edu community uses this quite extensively, evidenced by the topic > coming up on the mailing lists at least once every two months or so and has > for years. Can't say that about the other contrib modules other than the > schedulers and streaming. Then they are using old version of Hadoop. AFAICT HOD does not work with 0.20 or beyond. > c) The community that does use it has even submitted a patch that we've > ignored. Which means the committers of this project gave up on it long ago. Nige
