Thanks for the feedback, everyone. I'll start the vote on the next RC shortly.
James On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Gabriel Reid <gabriel.r...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 6:43 PM, James Taylor <jamestay...@apache.org> > wrote: > > Thanks for the feedback, Gabriel. There's a build.txt file included in > the > > source release that explains what is necessary to do to build while we > wait > > for the HBase 0.98.1 release. Perhaps it's worth pointing to these > > instructions in the next VOTE email I send out? > > Aha, ok, I sorry I didn't catch the build.txt. FWIW, I did look for > info in the VOTE mail when I noticed that the source dist was relying > on a non-released version of HBase, so it might be a good plan to > mention it there. On the other hand, I shouldn't have overlooked the > build.txt file. > > On a related note, it would be good to add a similar notice about > needing a hadoop-2 build of HBase 0.94 for building the 3.0.0 release > with the hadoop-2 profile (unless there is an explanation already > present somewhere and I missed it). > > > We're hopeful that the timing will work out, as we need to go through two > > release votes (one on the dev list and one on the general list), while > > HBase just needs to go through one. > > Ok, makes sense. I don't have a real opinion either way on this. On > the one hand it would be a shame to delay things for so long until the > HBase 0.98.1 release, but on the other hand it would probably be an > even bigger shame if somehow a breaking change went into HBase 0.98.1 > (if the first RC doesn't go through) that would break Phoenix 4.0.0 (I > assume that's very unlikely though). > > - Gabriel >