Hi, I am volunteering for managing the next release.
We have added some major features and improvements after 2.6 release. We have resolved 92 issues after the 2.6.0 release. *Major Features & Improvements:* * Cube segmentation for Base cube * Support for fact to fact union (Unioning data across facts) * Added a Data completeness checker to know whether the registered partition has complete data or not * Moved Lens development to Java8 * Support for more hooks(pre & post rewrite and pre/post estimate) in DriverQueryHook * Support Asynchronous status updates from drivers * Support for PreparedStatement in Lens JDBC client * Send notifications to Http endpoints when the query is completed * Added an ability to analyze active sessions * Optimized measure covering set to exclude facts covering measure in other combinations * Improvements in Scheduler API messages * Added query failure retries for transient errors * Support for creating the schema from CLI * Allowing start and end times for fact table columns * Persisting Lens conf in finished_queries table * Limiting the max number of jobs scheduled per user * provides detail info about all the queries in lens server instead of only query handle * Terminate the long running queries after timeout * Made ResultRow as serializable obj for analyzing the results through spark * more improvements and bug fixes We have a total of 31 open issues. Some of the issues can be moved to 3.0 if required. https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20LENS%20AND%20status%20%3D%20Open%20AND%20resolution%20%3D%20Unresolved%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%202.7 * 12 unassigned issues are in 2.7 https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20LENS%20AND%20status%20%3D%20Open%20AND%20resolution%20%3D%20Unresolved%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%202.7 contributors are welcome to provide a fix for these issues. We have a total of 113 assigned unresolved issues which does not have fix-version. Respective owners, please take a look at these and move to either 2.7 or 3.0. https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20LENS%20AND%20status%20%3D%20Open%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%20EMPTY%20AND%20assignee%20!%3D%20EMPTY Plan for 2.7 release: 20th May: Feature freeze and release branching 04th June: We can spend a couple of weeks in verifying issues. 5th-8th June: Dev list voting 9th June: Roll out release candidate Any changes in the timelines will be updated on the Release Calendar https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/LENS/Release+Calendar Let me know if you have any concerns/comments. Thanks, Raju Bairishetti, www.lazada.com
