+1 ... it'll really expand the number of people using Drill, so we get good feedback on what's working and what's not. Glad that Drill is already sufficiently rich to allow complex use-cases, so the feedback should be first-class.
thanks & regards, Srivas. *---* *M.C. Srivas, CTO & Co-founder, *MapR Technologies, Inc. <http://www.mapr.com> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 8:35 AM, Jacques Nadeau <jacq...@apache.org> wrote: > Hey Everybody, > > It has been too long since our last release. So much good stuff has been > done in master but we have no release with which people can experiment. We > need to do a better job of releasing early and often. I think the monthly > cycle that Optiq and Spark uses works very well and propose we move to that > model. > > To kick this off, I propose we do a release next week that is our first > development point release that supports distributed execution. There are > probably a dozen outstanding patches that would be good to get into this > release and I'd like to try to target those but ultimately time-bound the > release. > > With releasing comes a discussion of version numbers. While we initially > started out with a milestone versioning scheme, the feedback I've received > is that it doesn't fit what people expect. As such, I propose moving to a > more traditional point release scheme. > > I think that we're probably a month or so away from a good beta release > which I think would fairly be considered a 0.5 release. As such, I propose > that we release 0.4 next week and then increment each month, targeting a > 1.0 release towards the end of the year. > > In summary, my release proposal is to target something similar to: > July: 0.4 (dev preview) > August: 0.5 (beta) > September: 0.6 > Oct: 0.7 > ... > EOY: 1.0 (ga) > > I think this more frequent release will help users to understand what Drill > is all about and let them start to experiment with their workloads. This > should also drive additional community engagement and new contributions > which is what this is all about. > > thanks, > Jacques >
