That would be great Reid. For the next release I’ll ping you and we can walk through the steps together.
> On May 19, 2020, at 7:58 PM, Reid Chan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for the efforts Andrew! > > And I want to volunteer for the branch-1 RM as well, that says at least > there're 2 RMs maintaining branch-1 release, if you don't have free cycles, > I'm up. > But I don't have any experiences in doing release, so I'm wondering if you > could guide me that on next branch-1 release, allowing me to follow your > steps. > > > > -------------------------- > > Best regards, > R.C > > > > ________________________________________ > From: Andrew Purtell <[email protected]> > Sent: 20 May 2020 01:47 > To: dev > Subject: Toward 1.7.0 > > Contributions to branch-1 have been organically declining for a long while. > A community focus on stable version 2.x and forward looking work on master > branch is absolutely where contributors and committers should be spending > their time. That said, until at least the next calendar year, at my > employer, our production will continue to be based on branch-1. I plan to > continue occasional RM duties to release from branch-1 on at least a > quarterly cadence until then. Next up is 1.7.0, assuming there are changes > committed that necessitate a minor increment. > > I believe there will be changes that should increment the minor version. A > colleague is thinking about backporting HBASE-18095 to branch-1. > HBASE-18095 is an optional non-default configuration that removes client > side direct dependencies on ZooKeeper for non-administrative activity. It > simplifies client side connection and timeout management, for ensuring > things like fail fast behavior. As soon as it goes in, I would like to make > this new option available in a release. This may happen in the next few > weeks. > > If you happen to have pending work intended for commit to branch-1, and > would like to make this train, you have some time, but should endeavor to > get it committed sooner rather than later. If you need help getting changes > in please contact me at [email protected]. I do follow JIRA still, but > not with the same intensity as in past years, so may miss it if you > at-mention me. > > > -- > Best regards, > Andrew > > Words like orphans lost among the crosstalk, meaning torn from truth's > decrepit hands > - A23, Crosstalk
