Hi, NOTE: I'm at the Hadoop Summit in Munchen Germany with limited tools (and limited power for my laptop) here.
I did a git clone of the avro code based and checked out the project at commit 6bbcf7658e31cd7e92c459300fd70263b9b89de6 I found a simple problem that needs to be fixed: Running ./build.sh rat reveals a build failure caused by a missing copyright comment in lang/java/avro/src/test/java/org/apache/avro/TestFixed.java Niels Basjes On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 12:16 AM, Harsha <[email protected]> wrote: > Sean, > Agree on most of points made here. I am new to the avro project but > also active committer/PMC in other apache projects. > I understand that contributors can help getting the reviews up to the > speed but at the end of the day patches need to be merged > in to make it into the release. > There are quite a few patches with reviews available but not much activity > in-terms of merging or any further feedback. I am happy to help > wherever I can. I’ll open a new thread for further discussion on this. > > To get back on track of voting. > > 1. Ran unit tests 1.8.2 rc tag > 2. Verified signature of artifacts > 3. Tested avro-java module > > > +1 (non-binding). > > > Thanks, > Harsha > > On Apr 5, 2017, 2:29 PM -0700, Sean Busbey <[email protected]>, wrote: > > Personally, I think it's more important that we get back on our > > footing for release cadence. There are already a ton of things in the > > 1.8.2 RC. We can parallelize trying to get the other noted items > > reviewed and then include them in a 1.8.3 release later (say with a > > goal of next month). > > > > I don't want to hijack Suraj's VOTE thread, but the two things we most > > need right now are 1) a release cadence we can use to set expectations > > about when something that's been merged will see the light of day and > > 2) more active reviewers. We're a volunteer run project, so our finite > > supply of folks times has to be applied to both of these if we want to > > succeed. If we hold up getting releases out for the work of recovering > > our review bandwidth we'll perpetually be stuck with no releases. > > > > Due to the project's structure, only committers can help out with the > > release machinery (and thanks a ton for taking this on Suraj!). > > However, any contributor who has a spare hour here or there can help > > out with reviews. For example, it takes much less effort for me as a > > committer to go through patches once I see someone else has already > > provided feedback, especially if it's someone who's been making a > > habit of it. > > > > On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 2:09 PM, Harsha <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Suraj, > > > There are further comments on this JIRA https://issues.apache.org/ > jira/browse/AVRO-1885 to include additional patches in the release. > > > It looks like the patch-merge process is really slow in Avro. But It > would good to pick the patches raised by other users in the JIRA. > > > Can we do a cut with those patches in. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Harsha > > > > > > On Apr 5, 2017, 1:50 PM -0700, suraj acharya <[email protected]>, > wrote: > > > > +1 Non binding > > > > > > > > > > > > -Suraj Acharya > > > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 3:49 PM, Suraj Acharya <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > > > > > I propose the following RC to be released as official Apache Avro > 1.8.2 > > > > > release. > > > > > > > > > > The commit id is 6bbcf7658e31cd7e92c459300fd70263b9b89de6 > > > > > * This corresponds to the tag: release-1.8.2-rc2 > > > > > * https://s.apache.org/avro-1.8.2-rc2 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The release tarball, signature, and checksums are here: > > > > > * https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/avro/avro-1.8.2-rc2/ > > > > > > > > > > You can find the KEYS file here: > > > > > * https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/avro/KEYS > > > > > > > > > > Binary artifacts for Java are staged in Nexus here: > > > > > * https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/ > orgapacheavro-1010/ > > > > > > > > > > This release includes: > > > > > * A spec for single-message Avro encoding and a Java implementation > > > > > * Java: Bug fixes for Java logical types > > > > > * Java: Support for Decimal with specific classes > > > > > * Ruby: A fix for compatibility when using snappy > > > > > * Python 3: Updated to use the standard module-level logging > pattern > > > > > * C++: Support for Boost >= 1.59 > > > > > * And more bug fixes... > > > > > > > > > > Please download, verify, and test. This vote will remain open for > at least > > > > > 72 hours. Given sufficient votes, I would like to close it on or > about 9AM > > > > > PDT on Wednesday, 12 April 2017. > > > > > > > > > > [ ] +1 Release this as Apache Avro 1.8.2 > > > > > [ ] +0 > > > > > [ ] -1 Do not release this because... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > Suraj Acharya > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > busbey > -- Best regards / Met vriendelijke groeten, Niels Basjes
