A) is MUCH better from a product branding stand point.. which is what this is mostly about. I would go for something along those lines.
ToddP On Nov 14, 2011, at 2:41 PM, Doug Cutting wrote: > To be specific, I think one of the possible could be sensible: > > A. Rename as follows: > > 0.20 -> 1.0 > 0.21 -> 1.1 > 0.22 -> 1.2 > 0.23 -> 2.0 > 0.24 -> 2.1 > > B. Just drop the leading zero, e.g., 0.23.0 becomes 23.0. > > Doug > > On 11/14/2011 02:11 PM, Arun C Murthy wrote: >> Folks, >> >> Apache Hadoop has come a long way since our humble beginnings. As a >> community we've made significant progress, even in 2011 - we've had 3 >> releases off the branch-0.20-security (0.20.205 being the latest) and we >> just released 0.23.0 last week, our first major release off trunk in a while. >> >> With hadoop-0.20.205 we finally have an Apache release with both security >> and HBase support, both critical for the growing ecosystem. >> >> With that, I think it's time to call it as hadoop-1.0. The 1.0 moniker has >> something we've wanted for a while and I think it's time for us to just ship >> it. Linus did something similar with GNU/Linux 3.0. >> >> Yes, we could add more features or better it along many dimensions (ala >> hadoop-0.23), but right now we have a pretty decent piece of software i.e. >> the feature set in hadoop-0.20.205 is compelling and widely used. We could >> call hadoop-0.23 (or 0.22) as 2.0 etc. I do think we, as a community, can >> support compatibility in the hadoop-1.x series, which is the essential >> ingredient. This isn't a brand new idea, Doug suggested this a long while >> ago. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> thanks, >> Arun >> >> >>
