Thanks Todd, your help with the jiras you IDed would be welcome! --- E14 - typing on glass
On Apr 8, 2011, at 11:09 AM, "Todd Lipcon" <t...@cloudera.com> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Arun C Murthy <a...@yahoo-inc.com> wrote: > >> >> On Apr 7, 2011, at 4:22 PM, Todd Lipcon wrote: >> >> Is there a list available of which patches you've made this decision >>> about? I'm curious, for example, about MAPREDUCE-2178 -- as of today, the MR >>> security in trunk has a serious vulnerability. Do we plan on fixing it, or >>> will the answer be that, if anyone needs security, they must update to "MR >>> Next Gen"? >>> >> >> Apologies if my original message was abstruse - I want to ensure that there >> is no confusion between 'forward-port' and 'merge from yahoo-merge branch'. >> >> Let me try to explain again: there are several forward ports from the >> hadoop-0.20-2xx (branch-0.20-security) which are complete, including >> MAPREDUCE-2178. They are currently part of the 'yahoo-merge' branch in >> MapReduce. These are awaiting a merge into trunk. Trunk (with a few merges >> from yahoo-merge) will have a complete security implementation. >> > > Ah, OK, I see. That makes sense. > > >> >> My message was intended to highlight some small number of features/bugs >> which are/will-be in hadoop-0.20.2xx. Here is a nearly complete list of such >> jiras: MAPREDUCE-517, MAPREDUCE-1872, MAPREDUCE-291, MAPREDUCE-2418, >> MAPREDUCE-2409, MAPREDUCE-2411. I'll check to ensure there aren't others. >> >> >> > Looking briefly at those, it seems that the ones that are clear bugs (with > small fixes) should be put in the current MR implementation: > MAPREDUCE-2411 > MAPREDUCE-2409 > MAPREDUCE-2418 (maybe) > > These all have patches that are pretty small, and I'd imagine would apply > pretty easily to trunk. Let me know if you'd like any help forward-porting. > > The other ones, as new features/improvements, I'd agree it makes sense not > to waste effort re-implementing them for trunk MR, but rather to make sure > they're incorporated in next-gen. > > -Todd > -- > Todd Lipcon > Software Engineer, Cloudera
