More maintenance releases would be excellent.
If y'all are going to make more releases on the 2.6 line, please consider backporting HADOOP-11710 as without it HBase is unusable on top of HDFS encryption. It's been inconvenient that the fix is only available in a non-production release line. -Sean On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 6:36 AM, Tsuyoshi Ozawa <oz...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Akira, > > Thank you for starting interesting topic. +1 on the idea of More > Maintenance Releases for old branches. It would be good if this > activity is more coupled with Apache Yetus for users. > > BTW, I don't know one of committers, who is not PMC, can be a release > manager. Does anyone know about this? It's described in detail as > follows: http://hadoop.apache.org/bylaws#Decision+Making > > > Release Manager > > A Release Manager (RM) is a committer who volunteers to produce a > Release Candidate according to HowToRelease. > > > > Project Management Committee > > Deciding what is distributed as products of the Apache Hadoop project. > In particular all releases must be approved by the PMC > > Thanks, > - Tsuyoshi > > On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 6:43 PM, Akira AJISAKA > <ajisa...@oss.nttdata.co.jp> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > In Hadoop Summit, I joined HDFS BoF and heard from Jason Lowe that Apache > > Hadoop developers at Yahoo!, Twitter, and other non-distributors work > very > > hard to maintenance Hadoop by cherry-picking patches to their own > branches. > > > > I want to share the work with the community. If we can cherry-pick bug > fix > > patches and have more maintenance releases, it'd be very happy not only > for > > users but also for developers who work very hard for stabilizing their > own > > branches. > > > > To have more maintenance releases, I propose two changes: > > > > * Major/Minor/Trivial bug fixes can be cherry-picked > > * (Roughly) Monthly maintenance release > > > > I would like to start the work from branch-2.6. If the change will be > > accepted by the community, I'm willing to work for the maintenance, as a > > release manager. > > > > Best regards, > > Akira > -- Sean
