Agreed!! Thanks for all the hardwork Roberta!!! Really appreciate it!
Should all be smooth sailing now :) On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 8:35 AM, Stack <[email protected]> wrote: > Excellent writeup. > St.Ack > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 8:07 AM, Roberta Marton <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> 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 >> > > -- Thanks, Amanda Moran
