On 6/17/11 11:50 PM, "Eric Baldeschwieler" <eri...@yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
>Producing a stable release of Hadoop is a long, hard and expensive >process. Historically Y! has produced all such releases. Other releases >of Hadoop have either not been stable (Hadoop 0.19 and Hadoop 0.21) You lost me there. Enough Y! Chest pounding. Your contributions are large and important, but not every release not tested by Y! is destined for failure. 0.19.x eventually was stable and an improvement over 0.18.x in several critical ways (I used it in production for a year and relied on several new features). 0.19.0 was broken, append needed to be disabled, etc. But by the end after testing in the community, (by research institutions and smaller corporations) and some bug fix releases it became stable.
