On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 4:35 AM Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 9:30 AM, Igor Gnatenko <ignatenko@redhat.com> wrote:
> First thing you should do is to send your patch upstream. If upstream
> will say "it's good patch", I will help you to get it in Fedora before
> upstream will release new version. Unfortunately it's not possible in
> other way.

In the hadoop case it might not be valid to do that as the version in
Fedora is quite out of date compared to upstream.

Fedora's version may be out of date, but I suspect that this particular part of Hadoop's code is not fast moving, and would still be relevant to even their latest versions. At the very least, it's worth an attempt to contact them upstream first.

I do have an interest in updating Fedora's packaged version of Hadoop, and if the patch is good, it'd be nice to have it in upstream so we don't have to keep it around when we move to the newer version. So, even if they aren't willing to support the patch for our version, if they're willing to support it in any of their latest supported versions, I'd be fine keeping the backported patch until we upgrade.

As I said in the BZ, I just don't have the expertise to evaluate the patch myself to know if it's good or if it's going to cause problems. A +1 from upstream, a proven packager, or the secondary arch team, would be sufficient for me.