On May 9, 2013, at 10:03 PM, Uma Maheswara Rao G wrote: > Adding new features really a great thing and surely each big feature can be > included in one one major release as well.
Surely the one thing we have learnt over the last 4-5 years in this project is that we cannot make too many major releases. Notice how long hadoop-0.20/hadoop-1 lives; the same will happen with hadoop-2.x. Look at Bobby's message on this thread on *-dev lists: >>> Up to this point we have almost successfully done this switch once, from >>> 1.0 to 2.0. I have a hard time believing that we are going to do this again >>> for another 5 years. Each major release is a *lot* of work and is, subsequently, an opportunity where incompatibilities at various levels creep in - our users are not well served by this. So, it's a fallacy that we can and should make major releases per feature. Arun
