[Todd] What is the recommended policy regarding patching zookeeper
locally? As an external user, should I patch and compile in the trunk or
in the branch (branch-3.2)?
I've looked at :
http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/ZooKeeper/HowToContribute
http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HowToRelease
And both of these seem well thought out but aimed at commiters commiting
to the trunk.
In your context (want 3.2 features) you probably want to build based on
the 3.2 tag, that way you are working off a known quantity. I'd suggest
strongly that as part of your build you document the source base and
which patches/changes you have applied. Having this information will be
critical for you (or someone using your build) in case bugs have to be
filed, or further changes/patches have to be applied, etc...
Patrick
