Normal Description
This is nothing against cloudera or cdh.
For a time we had depended on a version of cdh3 which included a fix required to make hadoop output streaming work with Cassandra. However, in 0.8.x, output streaming support has been removed. We should therefore remove dependency on the cloudera maven repo and cdh and replace them with hadoop-0.20.203 or whatever the current stable release is for hadoop for the build.
This likely just involves removing the cloudera maven repo and replacing the cdh maven build dependencies with apache stable release dependencies. This would be in the main build.xml. Worth checking would be the dependencies in the examples and/or contrib modules.