Good point. Tests are a must for the Hadoop community to meet its own goals (quality and backwards compatibility). Writing detailed specs for something that is evolving this quickly is challenging. Also in a lot of cases, documenting the current APIs to POSIX like detail will mainly convince us that we need to design new APIs that are more like POSIX.
The good news is that this is open source and we can crowd source both activities, although it will still require a lot of work from our committers to validate and integrate this sort of contribution. E14 On May 12, 2011, at 11:57 PM, Milind Bhandarkar wrote: ... > Therefore, all I am saying is that, while a POSIX-like spec is a "nice to > have", a test-suite that defines compatibility is a must. > > - milind
