On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Arun C Murthy <a...@yahoo-inc.com> wrote: > > On Jun 15, 2011, at 10:10 PM, Eli Collins wrote: > >> I've spoken with ops teams at many companies, I am not aware of >> anyone who runs an official release (with just 2 security patches). By >> this definition many of the most valuable contributors to Hadoop, >> including Yahoo!, Cloudera, Facebook, etc are not using Hadoop. Is >> that really the message we want to send? We expect the PMC to enforce >> this equally across all parties? > > This is only a recent (less than 2 yrs) phenomenon with hadoop-0.20 onwards. > > I've been on the project for over 5 years now and I've run official Apache > Hadoop releases at Y! for the majority of that time. From hadoop-0.1 to > hadoop-0.18.
But Yahoo! hasn't. According to this wiki YDH (0.20.100) would *not* be considered Apache Hadoop. For example see HADOOP-6962 which refers to 0.20.9, an internal Yahoo! release, not an official Apache release. Are you really comfortable saying Yahoo! doesn't run Hadoop? Thanks, Eli
