> On Dec 18, 2018, at 3:55 PM, Sean Busbey <[email protected]> wrote: > First, I want to give a big thanks to everyone who's been slogging through > the backlog of changes over the last few months. It's really exciting to see > progress again. > > What are folks thinking about in terms of releases? I'm particularly > interested in what the currently active contributors and committers are > looking for? > > * Is a major release (i.e. 1.9) the main focus? > * Anyone already looking at getting existing minor release lines going again > (i.e. 1.7 or 1.8)? > * Are there any major blockers to doing one or more of the above now, or are > folks trying to complete a pass of everything before looking at releases?
I’m mostly trying to get things ready for a 1.9 release. That’s mostly digging through the open PR’s and reducing the backlog. There are still a bunch of Java and Python things left to dig through, but we’re down from over 140 PR’s to under 40 now so a lot of progress has been made. I thought Thiru was also going to look at some of the C++11 updates, but I haven’t see that happen yet. I’m not looking at 1.7/1.8 at all. > I ask because I may have a bit of time for doing release manager duties. > > In my experience it's better to release often rather than wait for the > perfect time, but I understand that there's a big backlog of expectations so > folks might not be feeling great about their changes coming in for a future > release when we don't have a history of a steady release cadence. > > Maybe folks with a more up to date view of the backlog than me have a better > idea about what things still under review might necessitate a major version > increment, so that we might try to get them all into 1.9? Well, the python updates are kind of a hold up right now as I don’t know enough python to really review them well. The C++11 updates would also be good to get done in 1.9. SOME of the c++11 things are done, but I think there was some other updates that Thiru was considering. Not really sure though. I also want to re-look at https://github.com/apache/avro/pull/259 <https://github.com/apache/avro/pull/259> as that is also a breaking change that I would like to get in for 1.9, however it’s now completely out of date and may need a full re-do. -- Daniel Kulp [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> - http://dankulp.com/blog <http://dankulp.com/blog> Talend Community Coder - http://talend.com <http://coders.talend.com/>
