Hi Arun, On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Arun C Murthy <a...@hortonworks.com> wrote: > > On Feb 29, 2012, at 11:10 AM, Arun C Murthy wrote: > >> Arvind, >> >> (Sorry, I missed this discussion.) >> >> On Feb 28, 2012, at 10:53 AM, Arvind Prabhakar wrote: >> >>> Please see [1] for details on why the code is like this. The short >>> summary is that binary compatibility requires us to respect all >>> extension points within the code. >>> >>> [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SQOOP/Namespace+Migration >> >> >> This might be prior to your involvement with Sqoop, but it was initially >> part of Apache Hadoop MapReduce as a contrib module prior to being moved out >> to github. >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-5815 >> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/hadoop/common/branches/branch-0.21-old/mapreduce/src/contrib/sqoop/ >> >> Thus, does the Sqoop community also plan to maintain back-compat with >> org.apache.hadoop.sqoop namespace for older users too? >> >> I can't seem to place whether we ever made Apache Hadoop releases which >> included Sqoop before it got moved out... > > Uh, hit 'send' too soon... > > Never mind - I was looking at the wrong project in ASF jira (HADOOP and not > MAPREDUCE). > > Sqoop was removed via https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-1644 > > Turns out we never released Sqoop via Apache Hadoop - so my question is moot. > Sorry for the noise.
Correct. This was disclosed at the time the project entered Incubator. Please see the background section in the original proposal below: http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/SqoopProposal Thanks, Arvind Prabhakar > > Arun > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
