My term as Release Manager for Apache Trafodion release 1.3.0 has been completed. It has been a pleasure working with the different Apache teams and Trafodion mentors, committers, and contributors.
Now that release 1.3.0 is available, we are starting to working on our next release in about 6 to 8 weeks. For the next release we would like to: a. Release binaries along with the source tar file b. Support vanilla releases for Hadoop and HBase c. Improve the build process (ongoing) If you have any comments on these items or would like to see other items included please respond to this email. Before I sign-off, I would like to recap the work that went into this release. This was our first Apache Incubator release but we did several open source releases before joining Apache. The following is the list of new features we added since our last non Apache open source release: - IDENTITY columns in SQL - HBase region splitting and re-balancing with active transaction - Support for batch feature in Installer - Cloudera parcels feature in Installer - Phase 1 of multi-temperate data in SQL - Compile time interface for Table Mapping UDFs - Allow columns attributes to be changes on table for SQL - Enable HBase serialization feature - Enable EXPLAIN_IN_RMS feature - Reduc path length for IUD operations - Enable compressed Internal Format for the scan operator - Many build improvements In addition we fixed over 100 JIRA's. Finally and more importunately, I would like to thank everyone who helped with the release. I received tremendous support from everyone. Special thanks go to: - Sandhya Sundaresan who spent weeks adding Apache license text and getting Apache RAT to run without incident. - Anu Hedge for simplifying the Trafodion build by unifying several build steps into a simple make operation. - Hans Zeller for providing many changes including build improvements to integrate SQL Java builds and removing the requirement for consumers to download and build specific versions of Hadoop and HBase. - Steve Varnau who was invaluable in answering all my build questions, fixing all my git errors and helping with setting up the release 1.3 directories and artifacts - Amanda Moran who tested all the binary artifacts created by the source builds on different Hadoop installations. - Gunnar Tapper who worked countless hours designing and implementing our revamped Apache Trafodion web site – go check it out! - Kevin Deyager and Justin Mclean for helping with licensing and copyright issues - Many Trafodion contributors whom I pestered with questions where were competently answered, and then reviewed changes to the product. - Michael Stack and Devaraj Das for handling mentoring tasks. Regards, Roberta
