Re: Please limit commits for branch-2.1

2016-12-05 Thread Reynold Xin
I would like to re-iterate that committers please be very conservative now in merging patches into branch-2.1. Spark is a very sophisticated (compiler, optimizer) project and sometimes one-line changes can have huge consequences and introduce regressions. If it is just a tiny optimization, don't

Re: Please limit commits for branch-2.1

2016-11-22 Thread Sean Owen
Thanks, this was another message that went to spam for me: http://apache-spark-developers-list.1001551.n3.nabble.com/ANNOUNCE-Apache-Spark-branch-2-1-td19688.html Looks great -- cutting branch = in RC period. On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 5:31 PM Reynold Xin wrote: > I did send

Re: Please limit commits for branch-2.1

2016-11-22 Thread Reynold Xin
I did send an email out with those information on Nov 1st. It is not meant to be in new feature development mode anymore. FWIW, I will cut an RC today to remind people of that. The RC will fail, but it can serve as a good reminder. On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 1:53 AM Sean Owen

Re: Please limit commits for branch-2.1

2016-11-22 Thread Sean Owen
Maybe I missed it, but did anyone declare a QA period? In the past I've not seen this, and just seen people start talking retrospectively about how "we're in QA now" until it stops. We have https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SPARK/Wiki+Homepage saying it is already over, but clearly we're

Please limit commits for branch-2.1

2016-11-21 Thread Joseph Bradley
To committers and contributors active in MLlib, Thanks everyone who has started helping with the QA tasks in SPARK-18316! I'd like to request that we stop committing non-critical changes to MLlib, including the Python and R APIs, since still-changing public APIs make it hard to QA. We need have