On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Devaraj Das <d...@hortonworks.com> wrote:
> Stack, did you lose the bet to JD yet :-) > > It is not looking good. > But seriously, should we consider branching 0.96 now? I know there are > quite a few blockers/criticals but they can be fixed/merged even after > the branching. Given that we want to release sooner a 0.96, I think it > makes sense to branch sooner as well and lock the scope somewhat (that > will also hopefully avoid creating more new blockers). > > Was waiting on the outstanding big code movements -- snapshots coming in, prefix-tree, client module moves -- and nailing rpc format /keyvalue serialization going forward for 0.96 so we don't have to do it in two places. > Should it be only Snapshots? Should it be RPC, KeyValue serialization > & Snapshots. There are many other things being developed in trunk and > many of them are probably okay for 0.96 as well if they are completed > on time. But I think we should put a stake on the ground and consider > a date for branching and work towards achieving that. After that it'd > be up to the RM to consider something for 0.96 or not. > > Agreed. > Should we aim for Feb 28 as the date for branching. Then we can have > an RC in approximately 1.5 - 2 months (April mid-end), and it would > probably be in line with what Andrew was thinking about when he > started this thread. Does it sound too aggressive? > How about Feb15th? Thanks for revivifying this thread DD. St.Ack
