I'm okay with this idea - it's better to spend time stabilizing a single release. I'd like to see 0.3 to continue to exist as a branch, but it's okay that we don't officially release it.
-Sushanth On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Alan Gates <[email protected]> wrote: > All, > > We cut a branch for 0.3 about 6 weeks ago, though we never got around to > releasing it. In the time since then we have been adding features that I > believe would be useful to get out quickly[1]. Rather than release a 0.3 and > turn around and immediately release 0.4, I propose we instead branch for 0.4 > in the next few days and spend our effort stabilizing it, with the goal of > releasing it within a month or so. > > There are still several patches that need to go in before we could branch: > 239, 243, 257, 261, 264. Note one significant backward incompatibility for > this release is the switch from storage drivers to SerDes for doing data > translation. > > Thoughts? > > Alan. > > [1] Namely, the switch to SerDes and to Hive's authorization interface. Both > of these make it easier to use Hive together with HCatalog.
