Folks, In the release numbering discussions that we had less than 3 months ago, there was a suggestion about 0.22 release being an active release, and that it should be reserved a major release number, since it has major changes (especially in HDFS, since a viable HA based on a working standby namenode, and a working append implementation in production at a major site, like eBay). However, there were objections to that from the guardians of Apache releases, that there have not been any commitments from the users on 0.22 to provide security-related patches for the vulnerabilities in 0.20.+ (in production use, nonetheless.)
Now that I see that Binoy has provided those security fixes, and attached to 0.22 as a target release, those objections are mute, IMHO. What are the opinions of the release numbering overlords now ? Is 0.22 a viable major release now ? I would love to know. Thanks, - Milind
