Eli, I hope we don't have to remove the TaskTracker *grin*.
Devaraj/Allen, You mean LinuxTaskController only, right ? The default is DefaultTaskController, which is not relevant to these discussions. +1. This is the easiest way to get 0.22.0 out. - Milind --- Milind Bhandarkar Greenplum Labs, EMC On 8/2/11 1:07 PM, "Devaraj Das" <d...@hortonworks.com> wrote: >+1 to removing the TaskController code for the 0.22 release. > >In the MR-279 branch, the security issues identified in MAPREDUCE-2178 >have been taken care of (to my knowledge). > >On Aug 2, 2011, at 12:58 PM, Eli Collins wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Eli Collins <e...@cloudera.com> wrote: >>> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 12:19 PM, <milind.bhandar...@emc.com> wrote: >>>> Having talked to various folks in the community about their >>>>willingness to >>>> stabilize and use 0.22 and make it production-quality, here is what I >>>> propose: >>>> >>>> 1. Cut a release 0.22.0 without mapreduce-2178 patch, with >>>> hadoop.security.authentication set to simple (I.e. No authentication). >>>> Make sure that MR-2178 is highlighted as known-issue in the top-level >>>>dir >>>> (create a KNOWN-ISSUES.txt ?), and carry out a vote. >>>> >>>> 2. Later, when MR-2178 patch is committed, cut a release for 0.22.1. >>>>(I >>>> have heard of folks working on it, but no date commitments yet.) >>>> >>>> The reason a 0.22.0 release should happen, IMHO, even without >>>>MR-2178, is >>>> that the other components of Hadoop stack (e.g. Pig, hbase, hive etc) >>>>will >>>> have a release to test against, and fix any issues for >>>>incompatibility. >>>> Also, for folks who do not use kerberos authentication (>90% of the >>>>hadoop >>>> users, to my knowledge), it will be a release closest to trunk, with >>>>HDFS >>>> appends. Plus, any issues found in the HDFS part of the release would >>>>be >>>> directly applicable to the trunk and other future releases. (Not so >>>>about >>>> map-reduce, which will undergo major surgery in trunk because of >>>>MR-279.) >>>> >>>> Thoughts ? >>>> >>> >>> Sounds reasonable to me. #1 is what we did for the 0.21 release. >> >> Actually, I didn't read close enough. For 0.21 we actually removed the >> task tracker, think it makes sense to do that here as well. >> >> Thanks, >> Eli > >
