Hi,

Are there any IP Clearance work that need to be done but we have missed?

Jun

> On Jan 4, 2019, at 10:56 AM, jun liu <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have created a new branch ‘2.7.0-release’, this branch will work as the 
> codebase of v2.7.0, for stability purpose, I think we should code freeze the 
> codebase, so please only submit necessary bugfix or enhancement patches to 
> this branch.
> 
> Activity can go as normal on master branch.
> 
> For detailed release candidates of v2.7.0 I will search the commit history 
> and sort them out, will send to this thread once it’s done.
> 
> Jun
> 
>> On Dec 27, 2018, at 11:53 PM, jun liu <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi, All
>> 
>> I am writing this mail to
>> 
>> * Keep you refreshed of the latest status about v2.7.0.
>> * Call for efforts on code review and tests
>> * Discuss possible release schedules of v2.7.0.
>> 
>> About v2.7, it’s going to be a milestone version, in which will make some 
>> significant changes. Most importantly, we will complete all IP Clearance 
>> related works. Technically speaking, it’s from this version on that a Dubbo 
>> release starts fully follows the Apache rules (lawfully), totally 
>> independent from any other third-party organizations or companies. Secondly, 
>> this version will include many new features that have received wide 
>> attention from the community, by supporting these features, we can better 
>> resolve the community’s long accumulated demands. Last but not least, we 
>> have made some architectural changes in this version, made Dubbo closer to 
>> the micro-service architecture, take the newly introduced configuration 
>> center as an example, it can work both as the center of Externalized 
>> Configuration at startup and as the center of service management 
>> configurations at runtime.
>> 
>> To summarize, the contents already included in the CodeBase are:
>> 
>> * Config Center: Zookeeper, Apollo, Nacos
>> * Externalized Configuration
>> * Service governance enhancement: dynamic configuration & routing rule
>> * Repackage to 'org.apache.dubbo'
>> * Java 8 support
>> * Async programming support
>> 
>> Most of the candidates listed above are in the proposal list that we have 
>> discussed in some threads before. For a more detailed description of these 
>> features or how they are realized, you can refer to the draft development 
>> documentations within this link[1]
>> 
>> Thanks to the efforts from the community (especially thank to Ian, CVictory 
>> and Minxuan), most of the development work has been completed and a round of 
>> code review and regression test based on some basic use cases have been 
>> completed[2].
>> Now I think it's time to prepare the formal release. One most important 
>> thing I think we should pay attention to is stability. We should guarantee 
>> it's stable enough before release, so we may need to put more effort into 
>> code review and functional testing. Based on my understanding of the 
>> CodeBase, such tests may at least continue to last for about 1 week, during 
>> this period we may need to `freeze the code`, which means only optimization 
>> and bugfix will be allowed. After that, we can continue to evaluate when to 
>> start the formal vote process.
>> 
>> 1. https://github.com/apache/incubator-dubbo/issues/2919 
>> <https://github.com/apache/incubator-dubbo/issues/2919>
>> 2. 
>> https://github.com/apache/incubator-dubbo-samples/tree/samples-for-2.7.0-SNAPSHOT
>>  
>> <https://github.com/apache/incubator-dubbo-samples/tree/samples-for-2.7.0-SNAPSHOT>
>> 
>> Jun
>> 
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