I think we should definitely have these fixed before we can announce a release (I am going to mark these as critical - I think we should do this for whatever we think needs to be in the release).
These are basically bugs that should be fixed. I have not included the features that we want to have in the first release. Please feel free to indicate what you think should be in the release. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-205 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-141 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-124 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-199 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-179 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-193 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-149 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-65 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-136 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-160 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-161 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-154 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-139 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-131 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-106 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-66 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-25 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-14
