Hadoop Yarn related codes are organized in separate directories to minimize duplicated code.
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common : Common codes that do not depending on specific version of Hadoop.
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alpha / stable : Codes that involve specific version of Hadoop YARN API.
alpha represents 0.23 and 2.0.x stable represents 2.2 and later, until the API changes again.
alpha / stable will build together with common dir into a single jar