Branch-2.8 is created. As mentioned before, the goal on branch-2.8 is to put improvements / fixes to existing features with a goal of converging on an alpha release soon.
Thanks +Vinod > On Nov 25, 2015, at 5:30 PM, Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli <vino...@apache.org> > wrote: > > Forking threads now in order to track all things related to the release. > > Creating the branch now. > > Thanks > +Vinod > > >> On Nov 25, 2015, at 11:37 AM, Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli <vino...@apache.org> >> wrote: >> >> I think we’ve converged at a high level w.r.t 2.8. And as I just sent out an >> email, I updated the Roadmap wiki reflecting the same: >> https://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Roadmap >> <https://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Roadmap> >> >> I plan to create a 2.8 branch EOD today. >> >> The goal for all of us should be to restrict improvements & fixes to only >> (a) the feature-set documented under 2.8 in the RoadMap wiki and (b) other >> minor features that are already in 2.8. >> >> Thanks >> +Vinod >> >> >>> On Nov 11, 2015, at 12:13 PM, Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli >>> <vino...@hortonworks.com <mailto:vino...@hortonworks.com>> wrote: >>> >>> - Cut a branch about two weeks from now >>> - Do an RC mid next month (leaving ~4weeks since branch-cut) >>> - As with 2.7.x series, the first release will still be called as early / >>> alpha release in the interest of >>> — gaining downstream adoption >>> — wider testing, >>> — yet reserving our right to fix any inadvertent incompatibilities >>> introduced. >> >
