+1 remembering and understanding current release numbering and attributing it to stable/compatible etc. is really painful.
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 3:41 AM, Arun C Murthy <a...@hortonworks.com> 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 > > > >
