> On Feb 9, 2016, at 6:27 PM, Junping Du <j...@hortonworks.com> wrote: > > Thanks Yongjun for identifying and proposing this change to 2.6.4. I think > this is the right thing to do and check for following releases. For 2.6.4, it > seems unnecessary to create another release candidate for this issue as we > only kicking off a new RC build when last RC has serious problem in > functionality. The vote progress is quite smoothly so far, so it seems > unlikely that we will create a new RC. However, I think there are still two > options here: > Option 1: in final build, adopt change of HDFS-9629 that only updates the > footer of Web UI to show year 2016. > Option 2: skip HDFS-9629 for 2.6.4 and adopt it later for 2.6.5. > I prefer Option 1 as this is a very low risky change without affecting any > functionality, and we allow non-functional changes (like release date, etc.) > happen on final build after RC passed. I would like to hear the voices in > community here before acting for the next step. Thoughts? >
I’d think having PMC votes apply to what is not actually the final artifact is against the ASF rules.