Guys, I've been working on getting the first RC out this week and want to share an update on the current state of the things.
- HBASE-16951 - was found and fixed, when we don't include hbase-archetypes in the tarball assembly - HBASE-16570 - optimization that caused a regression in the balancer, it was reverted from 1.3. Once fixed that would go to 1.4 and perhaps 1.3.1. - HBASE-16743 - flaky TestSimpleRpcScheduler, fixed now (I ran several cycles of 50 iterations each and all have passed). Now, there's presently one remaining blocker - HBASE-16964, when we don't properly handle archiving of store files after compactions (thanks Gary for digging into that!). See the jira for details. Also, as a note - the above is a third major bug around compactions that we saw on 1.3 during our testing last month (see also HBASE-16788 and HBASE-16754).. So during the upcoming RC testing let's try to stress this area. Until 1.3 is out let's consider branch-1.3 to be in a lockdown for new changes. Ping me if you think there is something that I'm missing that should go out in 1.3. Otherwise, important but non-blocker fixes in flight would go in 1.3.1. Stay tuned! Mikhail
