Mike, One more concern I forgot to mention - do you have a key to sign the artifacts? You can't release them without one. If you don't you will need to have your key signed by other Apache committers who have keys. Somehow I doubt that would be much of a problem :-)
Ralph On Jun 17, 2012, at 1:21 AM, Mike Percy wrote: > Thanks everyone for your votes and responses! Here's what I'd like to do for > the release schedule: > > - Friday, June 29: cut release branch > - Rel. Mgr. to backport critical bugfix/build/doc changes between branch and > release > - Monday, July 9: begin release vote > > Note that this a bit more conservative than the 2-3 week release schedule I > originally mentioned (but not by much). As suggested, I've marked the > wishlist items through JIRA as Blocker tickets. However, since these JIRAs > are in varying stages of completion, I propose that anything that misses the > deadline will need to be pushed to the next release (even if it's marked as a > Blocker). > > Here is a JIRA link to the list of v1.2.0 Blocker tickets: > http://s.apache.org/1eH > > Please raise any issues or concerns right away. Here's to putting out a great > 1.2.0 release! > > Best, > Mike > > > PS: These were the wishlist items I saw that were raised in the discuss > thread: > - Cannot start agent a 3rd time when using FileChannel > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-1232> > - Remove the org.apache.hadoop.io (http://org.apache.hadoop.io).* > dependencies from FileChannel and ResumableMemoryChannel > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-1285> > - Add more unit tests for HBase sink > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-1204> > - Create metric collection infrastructure > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-748> > - Support external tooling in configuration system > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-1051> > - Flume hot-reconfiguration specification > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-1278> > - OutOfMemory errors in Flume build > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-1256> > - FileChannel hangs silently when Hadoop libs not found > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-1246> > > > > > On Wednesday, June 13, 2012 at 12:57 AM, Mike Percy wrote: > >> Developers, >> It has been nearly 3 months since we released Flume 1.1.0. Since the 1.1.0 >> release, we have had 117 commits to the trunk, and 114 JIRAs have been >> marked "Resolved Fixed" with a target of v1.2.0. This flurry of activity >> represents a whole slew of new features and a bunch of bug fixes. >> >> Because of the above, I think we should release a Flume 1.2.0 to the world >> within 2-3 weeks. I propose that I be the release manager for this release. >> To that end, I would like to cut an SVN branch pretty soon to stabilize and >> test the code in advance of the release. >> >> In addition, I'd like to gather input on what other devs would like to see >> included in a 1.2.0 release. >> >> Aside from a few JIRAs already marked as Patch Available, the one thing I'd >> really like to make happen is a once-over on the user guide to cover the >> latest features. I'm willing to help. >> >> Regards, >> Mike > > >
