Yes, IMHO this will be more instructive and it will be great if we could do this from 1.4, thanks!
Best Regards, Yu On 2 July 2017 at 02:24, Andrew Purtell <andrew.purt...@gmail.com> wrote: > You mean something more digestible than JIRA release notes, prose not > bullet lists of JIRA descriptions. We could start doing that with 1.4. Some > RMs have done this before but in the release announcement emails. We can go > back and pull out that text for the book. > > > > On Jul 1, 2017, at 10:36 AM, Yu Li <car...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > +1 on branching branch-1.4 > > > > One naive question here: from the book > > <http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#hbase.versioning> we will add > > functionality (in a backwards-compatible manner) in minor versions, but > it > > seems we don't have any one-line description on the differences (what > main > > functionalities have been added) between branch-1.1/1.2/1.3/1.4 so user > > could better decide which version to choose/upgrade. Should we add some > > explicit document on this? Or release note of the first release for each > > branch is enough? Thanks. > > > > Best Regards, > > Yu > > > >> On 1 July 2017 at 09:10, Mike Drob <md...@apache.org> wrote: > >> > >> Not at all. I missed Sean's earlier comment, my email client was being > slow > >> to fetch updates it seems. > >> > >> Give a shout out on list if you need more hands for any part of this, > and > >> thanks for volunteering! > >> > >> On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 5:31 PM, Andrew Purtell <apurt...@apache.org> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> If it makes it to branch-1 before a release of 1.4.0 I don't see why it > >>> can't get in. Any objections to that? > >>> > >>> > >>>> On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 3:29 PM, Mike Drob <md...@apache.org> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Do you want the hbase-spark module in, or will that eventual backport > >> go > >>> to > >>>> 1.5 if it makes it into branch-1? > >>>> > >>>> On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 4:37 PM, Andrew Purtell <apurt...@apache.org> > >>>> wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> Greeting HBasers, > >>>>> > >>>>> It's my intention to create a new release branch, branch-1.4, as seed > >>>> for a > >>>>> new 1.4.x code line, with a 1.4.0 release coming within the next two > >>>>> months. > >>>>> > >>>>> I would like to volunteer to RM this branch. > >>>>> > >>>>> I would like to create the new branch in ASF git, branch-1.4, as > >> early > >>> as > >>>>> next week. > >>>>> > >>>>> There are a number of contributions from my colleagues and others > >> that > >>>> have > >>>>> been sitting in branch-1 for about a year. As time goes on it will be > >>>> more > >>>>> and more difficult to stabilize the current head of branch-1 for > >>> release. > >>>>> There is no time like the present to begin, so let's begin next week! > >>>>> > >>>>> If you have concerns, please, let's discuss. (smile) > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> -- > >>>>> Best regards, > >>>>> Andrew > >>>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Best regards, > >>> Andrew > >>> > >>> Words like orphans lost among the crosstalk, meaning torn from truth's > >>> decrepit hands > >>> - A23, Crosstalk > >>> > >> >