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From: Adam Berry <amberry@yahoo-inc.com>
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Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 08:45:56 -0800
Subject: Re: [VOTE] introduce Python as build-time and run-time dependency
 for Hadoop and throughout Hadoop stack
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0, +1, -1 (non-binding)

Also, it feels like maybe the discussion should have been kept open a littl=
e longer, thanksgiving holidays last week meant that people may have missed=
 it.

Cheers,
Adam

On Nov 26, 2012, at 10:16 AM, Robert Evans wrote:

> +1, +1, 0
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> On 11/24/12 2:13 PM, "Matt Foley" <mattf@apache.org> wrote:
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>> For discussion, please see previous thread "[PROPOSAL] introduce Python =
as
>> build-time and run-time dependency for Hadoop and throughout Hadoop
>> stack".
>>=20
>> This vote consists of three separate items:
>>=20
>> 1. Contributors shall be allowed to use Python as a platform-independent
>> scripting language for build-time tasks, and add Python as a build-time
>> dependency.
>> Please vote +1, 0, -1.
>>=20
>> 2. Contributors shall be encouraged to use Maven tasks in combination wi=
th
>> either plug-ins or Groovy scripts to do cross-platform build-time tasks,
>> even under ant in Hadoop-1.
>> Please vote +1, 0, -1.
>>=20
>> 3. Contributors shall be allowed to use Python as a platform-independent
>> scripting language for run-time tasks, and add Python as a run-time
>> dependency.
>> Please vote +1, 0, -1.
>>=20
>> Note that voting -1 on #1 and +1 on #2 essentially REQUIRES contributors
>> to
>> use Maven plug-ins or Groovy as the only means of cross-platform
>> build-time
>> tasks, or to simply continue using platform-dependent scripts as is bein=
g
>> done today.
>>=20
>> Vote closes at 12:30pm PST on Saturday 1 December.
>> ---------
>> Personally, my vote is +1, +1, +1.
>> I think #2 is preferable to #1, but still has many unknowns in it, and
>> until those are worked out I don't want to delay moving to cross-platfor=
m
>> scripts for build-time tasks.
>>=20
>> Best regards,
>> --Matt
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