I only recently discovered the "general" alias, my apologies if this was all described in the past and I missed it...
The "X.Y.Z-alpha" has been confusing to me. When I first saw "2.0.0-alpha" I assumed that there would be multiple "2.0.0" branches, for example 2.0.0-beta, 2.0.0-rc1, 2.0.0-rc2, 2.0.0-release. It seems fairly clear that this was an incorrect assumption. Am I correct in my current assumption that the "-alpha" does not imply any future releases for the version, but is instead a redundant adjective applied to the name to make it explicit to the world at large that 2.0.0 (or 2.0.1) is an alpha quality branch? jay -----Original Message----- From: Arun C Murthy [mailto:a...@hortonworks.com] Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 12:08 AM To: general@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Heads up: hadoop-2.0.1-alpha Folks, I'm considering cutting a hadoop-2.0.1-alpha release within the next four weeks or so with some more major add ons I think we can get done soon: # Auto NN Failover (thanks for the HDFS-3042 merge today Todd) and follow-ons as necessary. # Pending security work for YARN (anything for HDFS w.r.t HA?) # RM Restart (MAPREDUCE-4326) # Container re-use (MAPREDUCE-3902) # Multi-resource scheduling for CS (MAPREDUCE-4327). If you would like others please set the 'Target Version' and I'll watch that list. thanks, Arun -- Arun C. Murthy Hortonworks Inc. http://hortonworks.com/
