On Aug 29, 2012, at 4:32 PM, 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 > 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 :)
I agree with Eli we can solve it number of ways within the new TLPs - I'm also pretty it doesn't make sense to involve BigTop. I'd rather not waste bandwidth on that alley. thanks, Arun
