I propose just to make them blockers before committing to attract attention of the release manager and get his approval. Imho, even small changes, like HDFS-1954 are blockers, because a vague UI message is bug and bugs are blockers. Thanks, --Konstantin
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Todd Lipcon <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 11:32 PM, Konstantin Shvachko > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > I can see them well. > > I think Suresh's point is that non-blockers are going into 0.22. > > Nigel, do you have full control over it? > > > > Of course it's up to Nigel to decide, but here's my personal opinion: > > One of the reasons we had a lot of divergence (read: external > branches/forks/whatever) off of 0.20 is that the commit rules on the branch > were held pretty strictly. So, if you wanted a non-critical bug fix or a > small improvement, the only option was to do such things on an external > fork. 0.20 was branched in December '08 and not released until mid April > '09. In 4 months a fair number of bug fixes and small improvements go in. > 0.22 has been around even longer. If we were to keep it to *only* blockers, > then again it would be a fairly useless release due to the number of > non-blocker bugs. > > Clearly there's a balance and a judgment call when moving things back to a > branch. But at this point I'd consider small improvements and pretty much > any bug fix to be reasonable, so long as it doesn't involve major reworking > of components. Nigel: if this assumption doesn't jive (ha ha, get it?) with > what you're thinking, please let me know :) > > -Todd > > > > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Eric Baldeschwieler < > [email protected] > > >wrote: > > > > > makes sense to me, but it might be good to work to make these decisions > > > visible so folks can understand what is happening. > > > > > > On Jun 1, 2011, at 1:46 PM, Owen O'Malley wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On Jun 1, 2011, at 1:27 PM, Suresh Srinivas wrote: > > > > > > > >> I see that there are several non blockers being promoted to 0.22 > from > > > trunk. > > > >> From my understanding, any non blocker change to 0.22 should be > > approved > > > by > > > >> vote. Is this correct? > > > > > > > > No, the Release Manager has full control over what goes into a > release. > > > The PMC votes on it once there is a release candidate. > > > > > > > > -- Owen > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Todd Lipcon > Software Engineer, Cloudera >
