If I may pitch in briefly here, believe it or not, there is a lot of 
enterprises out there whom think that anything that isn't version 1.0 
isn't worth considering, let alone deploying (doesn't make sense, but 
some people are like that). Hence, from a market adoption point of view, 
Apache Hadoop is currently hindered by that. So unless we think Hadoop 
isn't operationally ready yet (which I think we agree isn't the case), 
the sooner we adopt the 1.0 labeling the better, as we all want to see 
Hadoop adopted in more and more places.

My 2 cents,

-- amr

On 3/31/2010 9:06 AM, Doug Cutting wrote:
> Allen Wittenauer wrote:
>> The fact that there are a *ton*
>> of admin tool changes/fixes/additions in the Yahoo! Distribution of 0.20
>> (and quite a few in CDH) should be the big hint that Apache 0.20 is 
>> *not*
>> 1.0. 
>
> Right.  I'm proposing we make a 1.0 release that tries to match what 
> folks are actually using in production and clarifies what APIs may be 
> relied upon to be stable going forward.
>
> Doug