On Feb 18, 2010, at 11:28 AM, Eli Collins wrote:
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Stack <[email protected]> wrote:
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Eli Collins <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hey guys,
What are the current plans for the 21 release?
Doesn't seem like there is much interest going by the deafening
silence Eli.
Did it come up last night at the HUG?
It did, Owen gave an update in his talk and there was some follow on
discussion. The question of whether it makes sense to rebase 21 on
trunk came up, since 21 has gotten really out of date since it was
branched. What do you and others think of rebasing the 21 branch on
trunk once security is feature complete next month, and then targeting
an initial release a month after that? The rationale being that 21
branch is old, has not been getting the backports it needs, and the
community should be releasing relatively recent bits. In the mean time
we can focus on 21/trunk blockers. It doesn't look like there are a
ton more trunk blockers than 21 blockers. I know people, HBase in
particular, have been waiting for a 21 release for a while so delaying
further is a pain, and we should consider rolling what we've got, the
hope would be that the 21 branch would be more widely useful if it has
more recent features and fixes.
If the community want the append features fast then we are better off
using the original 21 branch.
Basing a 21 off trunk will mean that there are more features with a
new set of blockers and and hence will take longer to fix.
sanjay
