Hi Attila, Thank you for taking the initiative, big +1 to the idea!
Regards, Szabolcs On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 1:40 PM, Anna Szonyi <szo...@cloudera.com> wrote: > 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 > > > -- Szabolcs Vasas Software Engineer <http://www.cloudera.com>
