I don’t personally have an issue voting during thanksgiving week; after all, it’s just U.S, and it’s just 2 days. I don’t think you should back the release. If you can’t get enough votes, extend the voting period.
> On Nov 12, 2018, at 1:30 PM, Francis Chuang <francischu...@apache.org> wrote: > > I have assigned my self to CALCITE-2576 (Release Avatica 1.13) and will be > release manager for this release, if there are no objections. > > If possible, I'd like to have a release for voting available by the end of > next week (23/11/2018). Unfortunately, this is during Thanksgiving, but I am > hoping that everyone will have the opportunity to test the release and cast a > vote by the following week. Assuming rc0 passes, we can then make the release > official by the end of that week (1/12/2018). This will then allow us to > release Calcite 1.18 sometime in December, before Christmas. > > Are there any issues/features you guys would like to see in this release of > Avatica? This is now the chance to get them into 1.13.0. > > Francis > > On 12/11/2018 11:17 am, Julian Hyde wrote: >> A new release of Avatica would be great. And we would be able to use it in >> the upcoming Calcite, and upgrade Calcite’s version of Jetty. (See >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-2467.) >> >>> On Nov 11, 2018, at 2:42 PM, Francis Chuang <francischu...@apache.org> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Hey all, >>> >>> I want to start up some discussion to release Avatica 1.13.0. It's been >>> roughly 5 months since the last Avatica release and Kevin has made quite a >>> few improvements to the code base. There are currently around 24 new >>> commits since the last release. In addition, Jetty has also been upgraded, >>> which I believe would be beneficial for Calcite. >>> >>> I have a script to build Avatica releases using docker in a branch and plan >>> to merge it in for this release. I also want to fix CALCITE-2385 (Cannot >>> build if we update the AVATICA_VERSION in the dockerfile during a dry-run >>> release). >>> >>> In terms of open PRs on Github: >>> >>> - Kevin, can you see if your open PRs can make it into this release? >>> >>> - CALCITE-2412 to add appveyor for testing on Windows >>> (https://github.com/apache/calcite-avatica/pull/65) is currently in >>> progress. Is there anything blocking us from merging this? Travis also >>> released testing on Windows a month ago >>> (https://blog.travis-ci.com/2018-10-11-windows-early-release). Perhaps this >>> is also an option we can look at. >>> >>> - CALCITE-2322 didn't make it into 1.12.0. I'd like to see if we can >>> reengage Kevin Minder to get this in for 1.13.0 >>> >>> - There's also an open PR that does not have a JIRA case: >>> https://github.com/apache/calcite-avatica/pull/76 Let's see if we can >>> shepherd this into the release. >>> >>> Is there anyone on the list who would like to be release manager? If no one >>> is able to, I am happy to act as release manager for this release. >>> >>> Francis >>> >