On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Matthias Friedrich <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > see below. > > On Wednesday, 2012-08-01, Josh Wills wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Patrick Hunt <[email protected]> wrote: > [...] >>> 1) when do you think you'll be ready for a release? > >> Among issues outstanding, I think we need to fix these prior to release: > >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CRUNCH-25 (Conform the site and >> build artifacts to Apache rules) >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CRUNCH-4 (Add Hadoop 1.0/2.0 >> profiles and remove CDH dependencies) >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CRUNCH-16 (Fix dependency versions) > >> CRUNCH-25 has a patch and I just missed it, so we need to update it to >> work with the current head. CRUNCH-4 is currently blocked on the >> release of HBase 0.94.1, which will be the first HBase release that >> will work with Hadoop 2.0. I don't have a feel for how much work >> CRUNCH-16 depends on CRUNCH-4 in my mind, and am more ambivalent about >> blocking the release on it since I don't know how much work it >> involves. > [...] > > I'll have a look at CRUNCH-16 if someone tells me which Hadoop version > we're going to use. There's also the issue of fixing Scrunch's > namespace.
It will be Hadoop 1.0.3 and Hadoop 2.0.0-alpha. > > Apart from these issues we need: > > * Work through Apache and Incubator release guidelines > * Write a release guide for Crunch > * Set up a distribution directory with a KEYS file > * Decide on a branching model and document it > * Configure the POM to > * create a source distribution > * make release via maven-release-plugin possible > * make deployment to Nexus possible > * Nominate a release manager > > Being able to publish the website is probably also a good idea (see > INFRA-5092). +1. > > I think writing an Apache-compliant release guide will be the most > time consuming task. > > Regards, > Matthias -- Director of Data Science Cloudera Twitter: @josh_wills
