I also skimmed the blocker and critical JIRAs. I wonder if we need to recalibrate what "blocker" and "critical" mean. In the past both have been used in Impala with the following meanings: * Blocker -> we will not do the targeted release until this task is completed * Critical -> we will try really hard to finish this task in time for a release, and maybe we'll delay the release a bit, but we won't necessarily block the release if it doesn't make it.
It should be rare to have features or improvements that are blockers or critical. No matter how awesome or useful they are, or even if it's your personal #1 priority. I think we've gotten some priority inflation and it makes it hard for a release manager to determine how much needs to be done before the release. - Tim On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 12:00 PM Joe McDonnell <joemcdonn...@cloudera.com> wrote: > I'm going through blocker JIRAs, resolving some and downgrading others. > Here is an updated link that excludes JIRAs with target version of Impala > 4.0: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20IMPALA%20AND%20status%20in%20(Open%2C%20%22In%20Progress%22%2C%20Reopened)%20AND%20priority%20%3D%20Blocker%20AND%20%22Target%20Version%22%20not%20in%20(%22Impala%204.0%22) > > We need to decide if there are features that are close to finished that > would be nice to get into Impala 3.4. One that I think would be nice to > merge is Python 3 support for impala-shell (IMPALA-3343). > > Thanks, > Joe > > On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 7:58 AM Sahil Takiar <takiar.sa...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Makes sense to me. > > > > On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 4:36 PM Aman Sinha <amansi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Thanks Joe for volunteering to be the release manager. > > > +1 for doing a 3.4 release and for triaging the 'blocker' JIRAs (some > of > > > which may turn out not to be real blockers). > > > > > > Aman > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 3:51 PM Tim Armstrong <tarmstr...@cloudera.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > We definitely need to prune down that list of blockers. I suspect > some > > of > > > > them have been fixed since but we should identify the real > > show-stoppers. > > > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 1:34 PM Joe McDonnell < > > joemcdonn...@cloudera.com> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > > > Impala-3.3.0 was released in August 2019. There have been a lot of > > good > > > > > contributions since then, so I think it would be a good time to > plan > > a > > > > > 3.4.0 release. As discussed on the "Impala 4.x (and 3.x)" thread, > > after > > > > the > > > > > 3.4.0 release, master will become Impala 4. > > > > > > > > > > I propose that we release 3.4.0 soon, and I volunteer to be the > > release > > > > > manager. I'm interested to hear what the community thinks about > > doing a > > > > > release. All feedback is welcome! > > > > > > > > > > PS This is not a VOTE thread but only a DISCUSS thread. > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > Joe > > > > > > > > > > Here is a list of open blocker JIRAs: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20IMPALA%20AND%20status%20in%20(Open%2C%20%22In%20Progress%22%2C%20Reopened)%20AND%20priority%20%3D%20Blocker > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Sahil Takiar > > Software Engineer > > takiar.sa...@gmail.com | (510) 673-0309 > > >