Hey Pete, I didn't backport it to 1.6 because it just affects tests in most cases. I'm sure we also have other places calling blocking methods in the event loops, so similar issues are still there even after applying this patch. Hence, I don't think it's a blocker for 1.6.2.
On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 2:57 AM, Pete Robbins <robbin...@gmail.com> wrote: > The PR (https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/13055) to fix > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-15262 was applied to 1.6.2 > however this fix caused another issue > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-15606 the fix for which ( > https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/13355) has not been backported to > the 1.6 branch so I'm now seeing the same failure in 1.6.2 > > Cheers, > > On Mon, 20 Jun 2016 at 05:25 Reynold Xin <r...@databricks.com> wrote: > >> Please vote on releasing the following candidate as Apache Spark version >> 1.6.2. The vote is open until Wednesday, June 22, 2016 at 22:00 PDT and >> passes if a majority of at least 3+1 PMC votes are cast. >> >> [ ] +1 Release this package as Apache Spark 1.6.2 >> [ ] -1 Do not release this package because ... >> >> >> The tag to be voted on is v1.6.2-rc2 >> (54b1121f351f056d6b67d2bb4efe0d553c0f7482) >> >> The release files, including signatures, digests, etc. can be found at: >> http://people.apache.org/~pwendell/spark-releases/spark-1.6.2-rc2-bin/ >> >> Release artifacts are signed with the following key: >> https://people.apache.org/keys/committer/pwendell.asc >> >> The staging repository for this release can be found at: >> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachespark-1186/ >> >> The documentation corresponding to this release can be found at: >> http://people.apache.org/~pwendell/spark-releases/spark-1.6.2-rc2-docs/ >> >> >> ======================================= >> == How can I help test this release? == >> ======================================= >> If you are a Spark user, you can help us test this release by taking an >> existing Spark workload and running on this release candidate, then >> reporting any regressions from 1.6.1. >> >> ================================================ >> == What justifies a -1 vote for this release? == >> ================================================ >> This is a maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. Bugs already present >> in 1.6.1, missing features, or bugs related to new features will not >> necessarily block this release. >> >> >> >>