+1 to release 2.9 right after 2.8.1
> 8 мая 2020 г., в 12:53, Maxim Muzafarov <mmu...@apache.org> написал(а):
>
> Folks, Denis,
>
>
> I think no one will argue against that frequent releases is good. The
> last major 2.8 release scope was frozen the last December, so having
> the next 2.9 release in September sounds not so good in general. We
> already have a lot of major features to release, for instance:
> - Sandbox for user-defined code [1]
> - .NET: Native Near Cache [2]
> - TDE - Phase-2. Master key rotation [3]
> - Thin client: compute support [4]
>
> I remember some folks at the last Apache Ignite meetup asking to
> release the `master key rotation` feature for their production.
>
>
> I suggest the following plan:
> - Ignite 2.9 (July 2020). Features that are already in the master branch.
> - Ignite 2.10 (September 2020). Improvements that will be ready
> throughout May-July.
> - Ignite 3.0 (January 2020). Improvements that will be completed
> within the August-November.
>
>
> Some thoughts about Apache Ignite 3.0 release.
>
> From my understanding, I think we should release Apache Ignite 3.0 by
> the end of this year even we would not have super-major features.
> Keeping backward compatibility for the previous versions which
> released more than 3 years ago requires a lot of effort. It doubles
> complexity of each new feature we adding to the product and floods the
> code with unnecessary if-else statements.
>
> I think the beginning of the 2021 year is a good point to stop doing
> such things and go further :-) We already have the huge wishlist [5]
> for Apache Ignite 3.0 and we should start removing stale source code
> from the master branch.
>
> WDYT?
>
>
> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IGNITE-11410
> [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IGNITE-12691
> [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IGNITE-12186
> [4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IGNITE-12835
> [5]
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/IGNITE/Apache+Ignite+3.0+Wishlist
>
> On Thu, 7 May 2020 at 23:02, Denis Magda <dma...@apache.org> wrote:
>>
>> Igniters,
>>
>> Thanks for helping to put together our first roadmap for the rest of 2020
>> [1]. Turned out to be a handy source that should be appreciated by Ignite
>> application developers.
>>
>> By looking at the page, it feels like we can plan a couple of releases:
>>
>> - Ignite 2.9 (early September) - it includes all the improvements that
>> should be ready throughout May-July. We reserve August for issues fixing
>> and final release steps.
>> - Ignite 2.10 (late January 2021) - the release is for features that
>> should be completed within the August-November timeframe. Considering the
>> holiday season, we'll use December and most of January for final release
>> procedures.
>>
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Also, is there anybody who is ready to take over release management tasks
>> for 2.9?
>>
>> [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/IGNITE/Apache+Ignite+Roadmap
>>
>> -
>> Denis
