I think it's a good idea. Although releases have been preceded before by release candidates for developers, it would be good to get a formal preview/beta release ratified for public consumption ahead of a new major release. Better to have a little more testing in the wild to identify problems before 2.0.0 is finalized.
+1 to the release. License, sigs, etc check out. On Ubuntu 16 + Java 8, compilation and tests succeed for "-Pyarn -Phive -Phive-thriftserver -Phadoop-2.6". On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 6:40 AM, Reynold Xin <r...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi, > > In the past the Apache Spark community have created preview packages (not > official releases) and used those as opportunities to ask community members > to test the upcoming versions of Apache Spark. Several people in the Apache > community have suggested we conduct votes for these preview packages and > turn them into formal releases by the Apache foundation's standard. Preview > releases are not meant to be functional, i.e. they can and highly likely > will contain critical bugs or documentation errors, but we will be able to > post them to the project's website to get wider feedback. They should > satisfy the legal requirements of Apache's release policy > (http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html) such as having proper licenses. > > > Please vote on releasing the following candidate as Apache Spark version > 2.0.0-preview. The vote is open until Friday, May 20, 2015 at 11:00 PM PDT > and passes if a majority of at least 3 +1 PMC votes are cast. > > [ ] +1 Release this package as Apache Spark 2.0.0-preview > [ ] -1 Do not release this package because ... > > To learn more about Apache Spark, please see http://spark.apache.org/ > > The tag to be voted on is 2.0.0-preview > (8f5a04b6299e3a47aca13cbb40e72344c0114860) > > The release files, including signatures, digests, etc. can be found at: > http://home.apache.org/~pwendell/spark-releases/spark-2.0.0-preview-bin/ > > Release artifacts are signed with the following key: > https://people.apache.org/keys/committer/pwendell.asc > > The documentation corresponding to this release can be found at: > http://home.apache.org/~pwendell/spark-releases/spark-2.0.0-preview-docs/ > > The list of resolved issues are: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-15351?jql=project%20%3D%20SPARK%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%202.0.0 > > > If you are a Spark user, you can help us test this release by taking an > existing Apache Spark workload and running on this candidate, then reporting > any regressions. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@spark.apache.org
