Hey Kududes and Kududettes, Back in early July, JD suggested that we do a Kudu 0.10 release in early August. Well, early August is here and we are rapidly approaching mid-August, so let's get on it :)
As many of you know, JD is out of the office for a number of weeks with a new daughter (congrats JD!), so I'd like to volunteer to act as release manager for this release. Assuming folks are OK with that, here's my proposal: Remainder of this week -------------------------------- - we need to finish up release notes for 0.10. I just pushed a first draft[1] but it contains several TODOs which will need to be finished up. Please take a look at the notes and, if your name is mentioned, submit a review to add the relevant content. If your name isn't mentioned, but you've made a change that you think users will want to know about, please feel free to submit a review as well. Note: this isn't limited to existing committers! All help is appreciated! - similar to the above, if you've been responsible for a new feature in this release, now is a good time to ensure it is well documented. Otherwise, all the hard work of implementing it will be for naught - straggling features: if you're working to finish up last bits of a feature or fix, please try to get your changes committed by Friday. I plan to branch over the weekend and will be strict about changes trying to sneak in during the RC voting period. Next week -------------- - I'd like to cut an initial release candidate by EOD Monday 8/15. Assuming that we don't find any big issues, that should put us in good shape to have the release out by EOW. Looking ahead to the next release ---------- After this release, we've achieved most of the scope items that the community had discussed for 1.0. Some of the items may be still "experimental" in 0.10 without further testing, or need some additional polish, but I think it's feasible to fill that gap in about a month of concentrated effort. That would bring us to mid-September. Conveniently, Strata/Hadoop World NYC is falling towards the end of September. Aligning our 1.0 release to be just before that event would be nice publicity for our project - if we can target the week of 9/19 for 1.0, we'll be able to use the conference (9/27) as a good place to talk up Kudu and pick up some new users. How do people feel about this plan? -Todd [1] https://gerrit.cloudera.org/#/c/3802/
