Folks,

 I'm considering cutting a hadoop-2.0.1-alpha release within the next four weeks or so with some more major add ons I think we can get done soon:

 # Auto NN Failover (thanks for the HDFS-3042 merge today Todd) and follow-ons as necessary.
 # Pending security work for YARN (anything for HDFS w.r.t HA?)
 # RM Restart (MAPREDUCE-4326)
 # Container re-use (MAPREDUCE-3902)
 # Multi-resource scheduling for CS (MAPREDUCE-4327).

 If you would like others please set the 'Target Version' and I'll watch that list.

thanks,
Arun
--
Arun C. Murthy
Hortonworks Inc.
http://hortonworks.com/

I only recently discovered the "general" alias, my apologies if this was all described in the past and I missed it...

The "X.Y.Z-alpha" has been confusing to me.  When I first saw "2.0.0-alpha" I assumed that there would be multiple "2.0.0" branches, for example 2.0.0-beta, 2.0.0-rc1, 2.0.0-rc2, 2.0.0-release.  It seems fairly clear that this was an incorrect assumption.

Am I correct in my current assumption that the "-alpha" does not imply any future releases for the version, but is instead a redundant adjective applied to the name to make it explicit to the world at large that 2.0.0 (or 2.0.1) is an alpha quality branch?

jay

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From: Arun C Murthy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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Subject: Heads up: hadoop-2.0.1-alpha

Folks,

 I'm considering cutting a hadoop-2.0.1-alpha release within the next four weeks or so with some more major add ons I think we can get done soon:

 # Auto NN Failover (thanks for the HDFS-3042 merge today Todd) and follow-ons as necessary.
 # Pending security work for YARN (anything for HDFS w.r.t HA?)  # RM Restart (MAPREDUCE-4326)  # Container re-use (MAPREDUCE-3902)  # Multi-resource scheduling for CS (MAPREDUCE-4327).

 If you would like others please set the 'Target Version' and I'll watch that list.

thanks,
Arun
--
Arun C. Murthy
Hortonworks Inc.
http://hortonworks.com/

On Jun 8, 2012, at 11:59 AM, Finger, Jay wrote:

> I only recently discovered the "general" alias, my apologies if this was all described in the past and I missed it...
>
> The "X.Y.Z-alpha" has been confusing to me.  When I first saw "2.0.0-alpha" I assumed that there would be multiple "2.0.0" branches, for example 2.0.0-beta, 2.0.0-rc1, 2.0.0-rc2, 2.0.0-release.  It seems fairly clear that this was an incorrect assumption.
>
> Am I correct in my current assumption that the "-alpha" does not imply any future releases for the version, but is instead a redundant adjective applied to the name to make it explicit to the world at large that 2.0.0 (or 2.0.1) is an alpha quality branch?

Yes, absolutely - this is to warn the world at large that 2.x is still 'alpha' quality.

See the discussion on general@ here: http://s.apache.org/A5T
Some more info: http://hortonworks.com/blog/apache-hadoop-2-0-alpha-released/

hth,
Arun

>
> jay
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arun C Murthy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 12:08 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Heads up: hadoop-2.0.1-alpha
>
> Folks,
>
> I'm considering cutting a hadoop-2.0.1-alpha release within the next four weeks or so with some more major add ons I think we can get done soon:
>
> # Auto NN Failover (thanks for the HDFS-3042 merge today Todd) and follow-ons as necessary.
> # Pending security work for YARN (anything for HDFS w.r.t HA?)  # RM Restart (MAPREDUCE-4326)  # Container re-use (MAPREDUCE-3902)  # Multi-resource scheduling for CS (MAPREDUCE-4327).
>
> If you would like others please set the 'Target Version' and I'll watch that list.
>
> thanks,
> Arun
>
>
> --
> Arun C. Murthy
> Hortonworks Inc.
> http://hortonworks.com/
>
>

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Hortonworks Inc.
http://hortonworks.com/