+1 for Sqoop 1.4.4. It has been a while since the last release and we should push out a new one!
+1 for community release manager (I would call this the usual release process now, which is awesome! :) ) Cheers, Hari On Sunday, June 16, 2013 at 5:52 PM, Jarek Jarcec Cecho wrote: > Sqoop developer community, > It has been three months since our last Sqoop 1 release version 1.4.3 and > there has been steady activity on the codebase with about 49 issues resolved > [1]. Some of them are usual bugfixes, but we also added major new > functionality. For example we added Netezza Connector and HCatalog > integration. It will therefore be appropriate time to do a maintenance > release of the project with version number 1.4.4. > > To that effect Sqoop PMC has decided to keep the slight change from the usual > release process that was introduced couple of releases back. Instead of > having one of the committers driving 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/qt > >
