On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 15:06, Suresh Srinivas <sures...@yahoo-inc.com> wrote: > Eli, > > How many of these patches that you find troublesome are in CDH already?
How is that relevant to the release vote and discrepancies listed in Eli's email? > Regards, > Suresh > > > On 5/4/11 3:03 PM, "Eli Collins" <e...@cloudera.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Owen O'Malley <omal...@apache.org> wrote: >>> Here's an updated release candidate for 0.20.203.0. I've incorporated the >>> feedback and included all of the patches from 0.20.2, which is the last >>> stable release. I also fixed the eclipse-plugin problem. >>> >>> The candidate is at: >>> http://people.apache.org/~omalley/hadoop-0.20.203.0-rc1/ >>> >>> Please download it, inspect it, compile it, and test it. Clearly, I'm +1. >>> >>> -- Owen >> >> While rc2 is an improvement on rc1, I am -1 on this particular rc. >> Rationale: >> >> This rc contains many patches not yet committed to trunk. This would >> cause the next major release (0.22) to be a feature regression against >> our latest stable release (203), were 0.22 released soon. >> >> This rc contains many patches not yet reviewed by the community via >> the normal process (jira, patch against trunk, merge to a release >> branch). I think we should respect the existing community process that >> has been used for all previous releases. >> >> This rc introduces a new development and braching model (new feature >> development outside trunk) and Hadoop versioning scheme without >> sufficient discussion or proposal of these changes with the community. >> >> We should establish new process before the release, a release is not >> the appropriate mechanism for changing our review and development >> process or versioning . >> >> I do support a release from branch-0.20-security that follows the >> existing, established community process. >> >> Thanks, >> Eli > >
