Hi Jarcec, It would definitely be nice to get a release of Sqoop 1 out asap. I am definitely interested in driving a Sqoop release. I was the release manager for Apache Flume 1.3.1, so I am quite familiar with the process of driving a release. So, I'd like to volunteer to drive the release.
Thanks, Hari -- Hari Shreedharan On Friday, February 1, 2013 at 7:18 PM, Jarek Jarcec Cecho wrote: > Sqoop developer community, > It has been several months since our last release and there has been steady > activity on the codebase with about 68 issues resolved [1]. Some of them are > usual bugfixes, but we also added major new functionality. For example we > added support for stored procedures in export tool, upsert functionality into > MySQL connector and/or schema support for Microsoft SQL Server and > PostgreSQL. It will therefore be appropriate time to do a maintenance release > of the project with version number 1.4.3. > > To that effect Sqoop PMC has decided to keep the slight change from the usual > release process that was introduced during last release. Instead of having > one of the committers running the release, I've stepped out as a release > mentor that will guide someone from the community that will volunteer to > become the release manager. > > This is a great opportunity for enthusiastic contributor to make a difference > for the project and learn more about the workings of Apache Sqoop and Apache > Software Foundation in general. Please do not hesitate and respond to this > email if you're interested! > > Jarcec > > Links: > 1: http://s.apache.org/ARW > >
