+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
