Hello Kudu developers! It's been just around three months since we released 1.8.0. In that time, we've accrued some important improvements and bug fixes (around 201 commits since Kudu 1.8.0!). By our usual three-month release cadence, now seems like as good a time as any to start thinking about a Kudu 1.9.0 release, and I'm volunteering to RM it.
I'm proposing we cut the branch for 1.9.x on Friday, *Feb. 1*, which gives us just a bit over a week to prepare, and then we'll start a vote a couple of days after that. If this sound good to you all, please start thinking about and writing up release notes for notable changes that have landed in this release, and get them checked in before Feb. 1. Here's a command you can run to check out roughly what you've been up to since Kudu 1.8.0's release: $ git log 5d8f4797786c8afbdc6e93dd71eb8d73657e7591..master --oneline --graph --no-merges --first-parent --author=<your email address> Please let me know if you agree with this plan, have comments, questions, concerns, etc. Thanks!
