FYI, I've just needed to raise HDFS-9761 to blocker status for the 2.8.0 release.
--Chris Nauroth On 2/3/16, 6:19 PM, "Karthik Kambatla" <ka...@cloudera.com> wrote: >Thanks Vinod. Not labeling 2.8.0 stable sounds perfectly reasonable to me. >Let us not call it alpha or beta though, it is quite confusing. :) > >On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 8:17 PM, Gangumalla, Uma <uma.ganguma...@intel.com> >wrote: > >> Thanks Vinod. +1 for 2.8 release start. >> >> Regards, >> Uma >> >> On 2/3/16, 3:53 PM, "Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli" <vino...@apache.org> >>wrote: >> >> >Seems like all the features listed in the Roadmap wiki are in. I¹m >>going >> >to try cutting an RC this weekend for a first/non-stable release off of >> >branch-2.8. >> > >> >Let me know if anyone has any objections/concerns. >> > >> >Thanks >> >+Vinod >> > >> >> On Nov 25, 2015, at 5:59 PM, Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli >> >><vino...@apache.org> wrote: >> >> >> >> Branch-2.8 is created. >> >> >> >> As mentioned before, the goal on branch-2.8 is to put improvements / >> >>fixes to existing features with a goal of converging on an alpha >>release >> >>soon. >> >> >> >> Thanks >> >> +Vinod >> >> >> >> >> >>> On Nov 25, 2015, at 5:30 PM, Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli >> >>><vino...@apache.org> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> Forking threads now in order to track all things related to the >> >>>release. >> >>> >> >>> Creating the branch now. >> >>> >> >>> Thanks >> >>> +Vinod >> >>> >> >>> >> >>>> On Nov 25, 2015, at 11:37 AM, Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli >> >>>><vino...@apache.org> wrote: >> >>>> >> >>>> I think we¹ve 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 >> >>>><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 <mailto: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. >> >>>> >> >>> >> >> >> > >> >>
