Sounds like a good plan, +1 -Jake
On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 5:36 PM, Todd Lipcon <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ >
