Hi guys, Thanks for giving me this opportunity. I'd definitely like to do Sqoop 1.4.3. I would also gladly help Venkatesan if he would want to be the RM for Sqoop 1.99.2 (if the Sqoop PMC agrees, of course).
Thanks Hari -- Hari Shreedharan On Monday, February 4, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Venkatesan Ranganathan wrote: > Hi Jarcec > Thanks for the thoughtful comments. I think it would be good for someone with > RM experience to work on the release management tasks for something like a > 1.4.3 release as there is a large installed base of customers. I believe that > will make the release smoother. > While I can definitely learn and contribute in that role (I have been in this > industry for embarrassingly too long in various capacities!) , I feel Hari is > a better candidate for the release at hand for aforementioned reasons > We can definitely revisit this for the next opportunity. > Thanks > Venkat > > > Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 10:29:46 -0800 > > From: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) > > To: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) > > Subject: Re: Release planning for 1.4.3 > > > > Hi Hari and Venkat, > > I'm excited to hear that you are both interested in becoming Release > > managers. Whereas previous experience with doing release might be helpful, > > it's definitely not a requirement. I believe that one of the main reasons > > for driving release this way is to help the community volunteer to learn > > more about Apache Sqoop and the Apache Software Foundation in general. It's > > my job as a release mentor to supplement any previous knowledge and > > experience. > > > > I would like to help anyone who is interested to learn more about Sqoop and > > who wants to contribute to the project. Thus I would like to help you both. > > Sadly it make sense to have only one release manager for one particular > > release. I was thinking about this during the weekend and whereas I can't > > do any promises, I believe that Sqoop PMC will be open to follow the > > release mentor and community volunteer model for next release as well. As a > > result I would suggest that one of you might be driving this 1.4.3 release > > and the another one might drive next release - for example 1.99.2 that > > hopefully will happen in near future. What do you think guys? > > > > Jarcec > > > > On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 07:45:08PM -0800, Venkatesan Ranganathan wrote: > > > Since Hari is interested in doing this with prior experience in doing > > > this, i think he is a better qualified candidate > > > Thanks > > > Venkat > > > > > > > From: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) > > > > Subject: RE: Release planning for 1.4.3 > > > > Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 19:35:26 -0800 > > > > To: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) > > > > > > > > Jarcec > > > > > > > > I can volunteer to take this with guidance from you and others > > > > > > > > Venkat > > > > ________________________________ > > > > From: Jarek Jarcec Cecho > > > > Sent: 2/1/2013 7:19 PM > > > > To: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) > > > > Subject: Release planning for 1.4.3 > > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
