I think we’ve converged at a high level w.r.t 2.8. And as I just sent out an email, I updated the Roadmap wiki reflecting the same: https://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Roadmap
I plan to create a 2.8 branch EOD today. The goal for all of us should be to restrict improvements & fixes to only (a) the feature-set documented under 2.8 in the RoadMap wiki and (b) other minor features that are already in 2.8. Thanks +Vinod > On Nov 11, 2015, at 12:13 PM, Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli > <vino...@hortonworks.com> wrote: > > - Cut a branch about two weeks from now > - Do an RC mid next month (leaving ~4weeks since branch-cut) > - As with 2.7.x series, the first release will still be called as early / > alpha release in the interest of > — gaining downstream adoption > — wider testing, > — yet reserving our right to fix any inadvertent incompatibilities > introduced.
