Re: Streamlining the Hadoop release process

2013-04-25 Thread Robert Evans
I like the idea. +1 I would just make a few tweaks to it, but I am not married to the tweaks and would be happy to adopt the proposal as is. I would prefer a trunk release every quarter. I am fine if a release manager wants to release more often, but I think a regular release cadence makes it

Re: Streamlining the Hadoop release process

2013-04-25 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Konstantin Shvachko shv.had...@gmail.com wrote: There was and is a number of discussions about Hadoop version compatibility, feature porting, stability. I think that many problems of Hadoop are the result of our flawed release processes and can be solved by

Re: Streamlining the Hadoop release process

2013-04-25 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:28 AM, Robert Evans ev...@yahoo-inc.com wrote: (Putting on my Yahoo! hat now) we at Yahoo! are still trying to figure out the exact time frame as to when and how we can move off of 0.23 and on to 2.0. I don't know if we are going to be supporting 0.23 beyond critical

Re: Streamlining the Hadoop release process

2013-04-25 Thread Robert Evans
I personally would, and I am fairly sure I can get management to back that as well. I'll keep you updated. --Bobby On 4/25/13 10:48 AM, Roman Shaposhnik r...@apache.org wrote: On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:28 AM, Robert Evans ev...@yahoo-inc.com wrote: (Putting on my Yahoo! hat now) we at Yahoo!

Re: Streamlining the Hadoop release process

2013-04-25 Thread Konstantin Shvachko
Bobby, Thanks for sharing your opinion. On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:28 AM, Robert Evans ev...@yahoo-inc.com wrote: I like the idea. +1 I would just make a few tweaks to it, but I am not married to the tweaks and would be happy to adopt the proposal as is. I would prefer a trunk release

Re: Streamlining the Hadoop release process

2013-04-25 Thread Konstantin Shvachko
How long do you think will it take to unload things from trunk into branch-2 ? What's your personal estimate? This depends on the resources. I don't know how many people are in favour of streamlining. I know that some are interested in working on trunk only some on branch 1. Most people want

[ANNOUNCE] Apache Hadoop 2.0.4-alpha released

2013-04-25 Thread Arun C Murthy
All, Apache Hadoop 2.0.4-alpha is now available. This is a bug-fix release which fixed a number of integration issues that were uncovered with hadoop-2.0.3-alpha. Please see release notes for details. Also, this is most likely the last of the hadoop-2.x alpha releases. The Hadoop