Fwd: Impala Board Report due for February 2020 - Initial Reminder

2020-02-12 Thread Jim Apple
I have published the below report. Please let me know if you would like me to revise it in some way. ## Description: The mission of Apache Impala is the creation and maintenance of software related to a high-performance distributed SQL engine ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attenti

Maintenance outage tonight for Jenkins server

2020-02-12 Thread Aman Sinha
The public Jenkins server (http://jenkins.impala.io) will be taken offline for security updates tonight Feb 12th at 9pm PST. We will send out an email again after the updates are completed. thanks, -Aman

Re: [DISCUSS] Impala 3.4.0 release

2020-02-12 Thread Tim Armstrong
I also skimmed the blocker and critical JIRAs. I wonder if we need to recalibrate what "blocker" and "critical" mean. In the past both have been used in Impala with the following meanings: * Blocker -> we will not do the targeted release until this task is completed * Critical -> we will try reall

Re: Impala 4.x (and 3.x)

2020-02-12 Thread Tim Armstrong
Do we plan to switch the default catalog implementation to the local catalog as well? On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 3:41 PM Tim Armstrong wrote: > We haven't generally had clear guarantees about what OS versions we're > going to support. I ran into issues with > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/I

Re: Impala 4.x (and 3.x)

2020-02-12 Thread Vihang Karajgaonkar
Yes, I think changing to local catalog can be done in 4.0 branch. Based on the feedback received here I think we can start removing the code for 3.x catalog implementation after we fill in some of the gaps in local catalog. We can selectively decide which ones are (eg. external data sources, HDFS c

Re: Impala 4.x (and 3.x)

2020-02-12 Thread Tim Armstrong
Sounds good to me - that approach has been successful before - i.e. switching the default in the major version, deprecating the old one, and then removing it some number of releases later. Although in some cases we have been slow to remove the code, e.g. the old decimal behaviour is still accessibl