+1 for creating the branch. As I said earlier, I am willing to help with any HDFS issues.
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Arun C Murthy <a...@hortonworks.com> wrote: > > On Aug 18, 2011, at 1:21 PM, Todd Lipcon wrote: > >> > >> I propose to do it noon of the coming Monday (Aug 22). > >> > >> Thoughts? > > > > I assume we will make sure the HDFS mavenization is in before then? > > Tom said he intends to commit it tomorrow, but if something comes up > > and it's not committed, let's make sure mavenization happens before we > > branch. > > Yes, I assume it will be done too. I see a flurry of activity from > Alejandro, Tom and Luke that end - I'm happy to help in any manner to ensure > it goes in before. > > > > > Also, what will be the guidelines for committing a change to 0.23 > > branch? Is it "bug fix only" or are we still allowing improvements? > > Given how recently MR2 was merged, I imagine there will be a lot of > > things that aren't strictly bugs that we will really want to have in > > our next release. I also have a couple of HDFS patches (eg the new > > faster CRC on-by-default) that I'd like to get into 23. > > > > There aren't strict policies - as far as I remember both Suresh and a > certain Todd (know him? *smile*) volunteered to provide that oversight for > HDFS, I don' t plan to be very strict. However, it will be a good policy to > ask folks to justify why it belongs in 23, and we make a judgement call > together. > > Makes sense? > > Arun > >