Hi All, I would like to take this opportunity and help release the Sqoop Connector. I have learnt a lot from this community and this is the best chance I would ever get to contribute back.
Thanks, Abhijeet Gaikwad On 16 Jul 2012 18:05, "Jarek Jarcec Cecho" <[email protected]> wrote: > Sqoop users, > It has been five months since the last release of the project and there > has been steady activity on the codebase with about 48 issues resolved [1]. > Some of them are important bug fixes - for example fixes to allow Oracle > and Microsoft connector to work properly on 1.4 branch. Others are adding > new functionality - for example incremental support for free form queries. > It will therefore be appropriate to do a maintenance release (1.4.2) of the > project for the benefit of our community. > > To that effect Sqoop PMC has decided to do a slight change from the usual > release process: > > Instead of having one of the committers run the release, it will be great > to have the committer be a release mentor and have someone from the > community volunteer to be the release manager. This will be a great way for > enthusiastic contributor to make a difference for the project and learn > more about the workings of Apache Sqoop and Apache Software Foundation in > general. > > I've volunteered to become the release mentor. I can offer my experience > from last release (1.4.1) where I was release manager. I'm looking for > enthusiastic contributor that would like to become release manager. Please > respond to this email if you're interested. > > Please do not hesitate to contact me in case that you have any questions. > > Jarcec > > [1] http://s.apache.org/xbr
