+1. It has been a long delay for 2.7.0. It's a good time to push it out. ~Haohui
On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Steve Loughran <ste...@hortonworks.com> wrote: > There's a couple of S3a fixes coming along which could go into a 2.7.1; > they've been held back to avoid rushing them in to 2.7.0 last-minute. > >> On 9 Apr 2015, at 20:33, Junping Du <j...@hortonworks.com> wrote: >> >> +1 (non-binding). >> The plan sounds reasonable. We should make our release train more >> fast-moving, and predictable - it could benefit our community and ecosystem >> in many aspects. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Junping >> ________________________________________ >> From: Arpit Agarwal <aagar...@hortonworks.com> >> Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2015 8:23 PM >> To: hdfs-dev@hadoop.apache.org; common-...@hadoop.apache.org; >> yarn-...@hadoop.apache.org; mapreduce-...@hadoop.apache.org >> Cc: Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli >> Subject: Re: A 2.7.1 release to follow up 2.7.0 >> >> +1 for 2.7.1 and +1 for promoting it to 'stable', assuming it includes no >> new features or gratuitous improvements. >> >> >> >> >> Arpit >> >> >> On 4/9/15, 11:48 AM, "Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli" <vino...@apache.org> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I feel like we haven't done a great job of maintaining the previous 2.x >>> releases. Seeing as how long 2.7.0 release has taken, I am sure we will >>> spend more time stabilizing it, fixing issues etc. >>> >>> I propose that we immediately follow up 2.7.0 with a 2.7.1 within 2-3 >>> weeks. The focus obviously is to have blocker issues, bug-fixes and *no* >>> features. Improvements are going to be slightly hard to reason about, but I >>> propose limiting ourselves to very small improvements, if at all. >>> >>> The other area of concern with the previous releases had been >>> compatibility. With help from Li Lu, I got jdiff reinstated in branch-2 >>> (though patches are not yet in), and did a pass. In the unavoidable event >>> that we find incompatibilities with 2.7.0, we can fix those in 2.7.1 and >>> promote that to be the stable release. >>> >>> Thoughts? >>> >>> Thanks,+Vinod >
