Hi Attila, This would be really great! Please let me know if I can help with anything!
Thanks, Anna On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 6:20 PM, Attila Szabó <mau...@apache.org> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > In the past few months we've mentioned it a few times that it would make > sense to create a new release of Sqoop from the current trunk version > (1.4.7). > > IMHO this is the right time to move forward with this topic. > First of all because the latest release is 2 years old (1.4.6 was released > in 2015 May), and it would make a great impact for the end users to deliver > all of the changes we as a community have made since. > As a second argument, recently we were able to onboard quite a few new > contributor (including but not limited to Illya Yalovyy, Ying Cao, Eric > Lin, Chris Teoh, Dmitry Zagorulkin), and as a recognition of their work, > I'd like to ensure their commits gets into a release as soon as possible. > Third: recently Anna, Bogi and Szabi were super active on the front of > stabilizing and improving the tests, the build system and so, however > according to my feelings the current status quo (waiting for a minor > version change with bigger changes) holding them back from more fundamental > improvements (I guess this is the reason why the Gradle/Maven new build > sytem is still in progress, and the conversation around feature branches > started). I think it would make a great impact for the whole community and > the product itself, if we would be able to remove this burden from their > shoulders, and thus they would be able to focus on bigger > changes/challenges. > > Because of the reasons mentioned above, on the top of my existing duties, > I'd like to help the community's life by owning the 1.4.7 release process, > and starting the release with branching the trunk as of 2017-06-01 (next > Friday) PST 8PM, and finishing the whole process latest by the end of June. > > Of course before starting even creating the related JIRA tasks, plans, the > branching, etc. I'd like to collect the inputs from all of you if this fits > your plan/requirements/etc. > > Looking forward hearing all of your thoughts, concerns, pros and cons. > > Best regards, > Attila Szabo >
