[MAPREDUCE-1996] API: Reducer.reduce() method detail misstatement

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.20.1
• Fix Version/s: 0.22.0, 0.23.0
• Component/s: documentation

Environment

Seen in Hadoop 0.20.2 API and Hadoop 0.19.x API

• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Release Note: Fix a misleading documentation note about the usage of Reporter objects in Reducers.
• Assignee: Harsh J
• Reporter: Glynn Durham
• Created: 05/Aug/10 17:05
• Updated: 15/Nov/11 00:49
• Resolved: 28/Feb/11 05:26

Description

method detail for Reducer.reduce() method has paragraph starting:

"Applications can use the Reporter provided to report progress or just indicate that they are alive. In scenarios where the application takes an insignificant amount of time to process individual key/value pairs, this is crucial since the framework might assume that the task has timed-out and kill that task. "

s/an insignificant amount of time/a significant amount of time/