+1 for Jarcec being the RM Jarcec - I would like to help out with the release. Specifically, I can help with triaging JIRA issues, updating the wiki with necessary details, and providing patches to update the website.
Regards, Kathleen On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Jarek Jarcec Cecho <[email protected]> wrote: > I would like to be release manager for version 1.4.1-incubating (if there are > no objections of course). > > Jarcec > > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:16:01PM -0800, Arvind Prabhakar wrote: >> Dear Sqoop Developers, >> >> The release of Sqoop 1.4.0-incubating was a big first step towards better >> availability of the project. Although this release does work with >> Cloudera's CDH3 version of Hadoop, there is considerable interest in >> getting Sqoop to work with 0.20.205, 0.23.1, and 1.0.0 releases of Hadoop. >> Some of this work is already completed and the remaining in progress with >> the help of various contributors and committers. >> >> We are now at a point where we need to plan for the next release - version >> 1.4.1-incubating, which will allow support for the popular distributions of >> Hadoop including the ones stated above. For doing this we need someone to >> assume the responsibility of being the Release Manager and drive this >> towards successful completion. >> >> The RM will be responsible for: >> * Identifying/triaging JIRAs that will go into the target release >> * Drive the commits of all the pending changes >> * Drive all aspects of the release from source tagging to final vote and >> announcement. >> >> If you would like to fill this role, please volunteer and help out the >> project! >> >> Thanks, >> Arvind Prabhakar
