On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 11:32PM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) wrote: > Hi Cos, > > On Aug 29, 2012, at 4:27 PM, Konstantin Boudnik wrote: > > >> Sounds cool to me. > >> > >>> - Hadoop 1.x is is maintenance mode, though it still actively gets > >>> patches so we need to consider it. The surgery necessary to split v1 > >>> Hadoop is probably not suitable for a sustaining release and not worth > >>> it at this point in the lifetime of this branch. I assume the HDFS > >>> project will then host the Hadoop 1.x branches? This implies only > >>> members of the HDFS project can commit and release. > >> > >> Why not put the 1.x stuff in Bigtop since it's global or whatever? > > > > Wearing my BigTop hat now, I encourage this audience to rush something like > > this to BigTop. If I am reading you correctly, you are asking BigTop to host > > 1.x branches of Hadoop, aren't you? I don't see how it fits in there, > > actually. But this is a separate issue that needs to involve BigTop > > community. > > Agreed that it would totally involve the BigTop community, and that that part > is up to them. You guys would know this way better than me, so thanks for > mentioning this issue Cos. I just kinda threw this out there but it's not a > blocker
I think this might be a good idea really, but we need to think over, I will start a thread on bigtop-dev@ to discuss what it means for us and how it can be done. > for me -- whatever makes sense here and it's a good point raised by Eli that > can probably be solved a number of different (easily solvable and > documentable) ways :) Exactly. As a general observation: there's always more than one solution for people who are willing to do stuff instead of pontificating. Thanks for steering this up, actually! Cos > > Cheers, > Chris > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. > Senior Computer Scientist > NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA > Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 > Email: chris.a.mattm...@nasa.gov > WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department > University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >
