Hi Folks! For those who don't already know, the move to TLP for Yetus got tabled at the last board meeting. Not to worry, things are on track for a speedy approval in September. On the plus side, our trademark request got approved in the process so we're clear for releases.
I'm going to reach out to the "interested contributors" over on the proposal text[1] in hopes that they'd like to get started sooner rather than later. I'd like us to start moving towards releases, both selfishly so that I can start using things in other projects and so that when new contributors show up they can expect their efforts to get out to the public. I'm presuming all of our releases under the Hadoop PMC will be version numbers that imply an unstable API (i.e. sub-1.0), but atleast interested down stream folks can stop waiting. One big TODO before we get moving is updating our repo layout[2]. We've been avoiding it so that we can have an easier time dealing with the occasional change that lands in trunk instead of our feature branch. So long as we're going to get a release out, I think we should take the plunge. As is, we have to instruct new contributors on navigating through the hadoop codebase to get to us. It also makes it harder to start working out what our release packaging should look like. For quick review, here are our planned initial components: * interface audience * shelldoc * releasedocmaker * test-patch I think the interface audience stuff (annotations and javadoc tooling) and the shelldoc work is ready to go now. It would be nice if releasedocmaker had a decision on the question of formatting for release note blurbs on jiras[3], but I could see the argument for letting it slide for now. Allen, you've been chugging away at the build support changes in test-patch[4]. That looks like it's going to change a bunch of stuff. Should we wait for it to land to have an initial release? Thoughts? Concerns? Other things folks want to make sure get done? Maybe the build question for test-patch[5]? ;) [1]: https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/YetusProposal [2]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-12361 [3]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-12298 [4]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-12257 [5]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-12137 -- Sean
