+1 On Mar 29, 2013, at 9:37 PM, Jarek Jarcec Cecho <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Sqoop developers, > It has been 3 months since first release from Sqoop2 branch under version > 1.99.1. Since then there has been steady activity in the development counting > 75 closed JIRAs [1] with additional 9 soon to be resolved [2]. There is > countless bug fixes and several new features including but not limited to > adding scheme support in Generic JDBC Connector, brand new client API or > adding splitter for numeric/decimal type that is essentially must have for > imports from Oracle. > > That being said I would like to propose doing a new release in the 1.99 line > named 1.99.2. Sqoop PMC has agreed to follow the same model that was in place > for couple of previous releases where one committer will step up as a Mentor > and will guide community volunteer to do the release. I've step up to be the > mentor. > > During last release we had two community volunteers and sadly only one got > the chance to drive the release. Having said that I think that it would be > fair to give the opportunity to the other volunteer prior offering this > option to the broader community. > > I would love to hear others thoughts! > > Jarcec > > 1: http://s.apache.org/jw > 2: http://s.apache.org/SeI -- Alexander Alten-Lorenz http://mapredit.blogspot.com German Hadoop LinkedIn Group: http://goo.gl/N8pCF
