Re: Java Versions and Hadoop

2011-10-08 Thread Todd Lipcon
I think requiring Java 7 is years off... I think most people have doubts as to Java 7's stability until it's been adopted by a majority of applications, and the new features aren't compelling enough to jump ship, IMO. -Todd On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 3:33 PM, milind.bhandar...@emc.com wrote: Hi

Re: Welcoming Eric Yang as a Hadoop Committer

2011-10-08 Thread Uma Maheswara Rao G 72686
Congrats, Eric! All the best. Regards, Uma - Original Message - From: Matt Foley mfo...@hortonworks.com Date: Wednesday, October 5, 2011 2:59 am Subject: Re: Welcoming Eric Yang as a Hadoop Committer To: general@hadoop.apache.org Congrats, Eric! Well deserved! --Matt On Tue, Oct

like children...

2011-10-08 Thread Thomas Koch
http://www.hortonworks.com/reality-check-contributions-to-apache-hadoop/ http://www.cloudera.com/blog/2011/10/the-community-effect/ “Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.” Anyone who feels about arguing who is guilty of the most

Re: like children...

2011-10-08 Thread Thomas Jungblut
Who cares? Did you really read the whole codebase and checked if it is conforming the rules in the books? Don't you have some other things to do in your life? It is admirable that so many companys are helping to push this product as well as normal contributors. Hadoop is a great example for the

Re: Java Versions and Hadoop

2011-10-08 Thread Ted Dunning
I hate to sound like the folks who only recently stopped using 1.4, but I am afraid that Todd is right on here. The folks who are desperate for new features are being siphoned off by Scala and Clojure which is leaving a core of recalcitrant termagants like me. I think that it is going to take