Based on the feedback I've gotten, I'm going to branch here shortly for 0.4.
Alan. On Feb 24, 2012, at 12:37 PM, Sushanth Sowmyan wrote: > 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.
