On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Tsz Wo (Nicholas), Sze < s29752-hadoopgene...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I recall that some users are using 0.21. Should we discuss this on the > users > mailing lists? > I thought -general was considered a user mailing list for hadoop-wide discussions like this? We can add +CC all the user lists, or just common-user which most people are on, if you think that's better? -Todd > ________________________________ > From: Todd Lipcon <t...@cloudera.com> > To: general@hadoop.apache.org > Sent: Wed, March 30, 2011 2:41:35 PM > Subject: Maintenance of Hadoop 0.21 branch? > > Hi all, > > Some recent discussion on HDFS-1786 has raised an interesting question: > does > anyone plan on maintaining the 0.21 branch and eventually releasing an > 0.21.1? Should we bother to commit bug fixes to this branch? > > It seems to me that our time would be better spent getting 0.22 and trunk > back to a green state so we can talk about releasing them, rather than > applying patches to a branch with no releases planned. > > Of course a decision now doesn't preclude anyone from stepping up later, > backporting patches to 0.21, and releasing an 0.21.1. > > Thanks > -Todd > -- > Todd Lipcon > Software Engineer, Cloudera > -- Todd Lipcon Software Engineer, Cloudera
