RE: Java6

[Jim Kellerman <ji...@powerset.com>]

See comments below:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stack [mailto:stack@duboce.net]
> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 8:14 PM
> To: hbase-dev@hadoop.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Java6
>
> Jim Kellerman wrote:
> > We need to support hadoop-0.18, however hadoop is making
> major changes in 0.19 such as requiring Java6.
> >
> > Should we:
> > - not support 0.17 at all and go to 0.18?
> >
> I think that there should be an hbase offering for every
> hadoop release.
>
> > - build a release (0.3.0) that targets hadoop-0.18 but
> incorporates no new features or bug fixes?
> >
> >
> Or I'd vote for the following option:
>
> - Let 0.3.0 run a short development cycle to add some small
> set of features and release it with 0.18.

At a minimum this should include 678, 698 and esp 728, all of which I have patches for once our hands are untied.

> Target 0.4.0 for hadoop 0.19.

Yes.

RE: Java6

[Andrew Purtell <ap...@yahoo.com>]

Hi Jim,

Would it be possible for you release those patches as-is and have someone else carry them forward as necessary?

   - Andy

> From: Jim Kellerman <ji...@powerset.com>
> Subject: RE: Java6
> To: "hbase-dev@hadoop.apache.org" <hb...@hadoop.apache.org>
> Date: Monday, August 4, 2008, 12:32 PM
[...]
> > - Let 0.3.0 run a short development cycle to add some
> > smallset of features and release it with 0.18.
> 
> At a minimum this should include 678, 698 and esp 728, all
> of which I have patches for once our hands are untied.