On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Arun C Murthy <a...@hortonworks.com> wrote: > On Aug 2, 2011, at 4:28 AM, Steve Loughran wrote: >> I'm getting confused about release roadmaps right now >> >> Is there somewhere that lists the (proposed) timetable for the 0.20.204, >> 0.20.205, 0.22, 0.23 releases? >> > > Since I was among the people who started the 'security on 0.20' thread, I > apologize for the lack of clarity on the roadmap and timelines. > > Eric did send out a note on the motivation for sustaining releases > (http://s.apache.org/hadoop-sustenance-releases) - which I believe is > important to keep Hadoop installations going. However, I accept that there > has been very poor clarity on the process for inclusion of content to the > sustaining releases and the timelines. > > Here is my proposal for the community process for sustaining releases moving > forward: > # The Release Manager should clearly communicate, upfront, the expected > timeline for each upcoming release. > # Anyone interested in contributing to the release submits a patch to trunk, > if applicable*, and to the branch-0.20-security branch. Then talk to the > Release Manager for inclusion via the normal process. > > The RM is responsible for release content, timelines and for enforcing that > each change should have an equivalent for trunk, as applicable, before > inclusion. > > If this makes sense, I'll add this to the wiki to record it. >
+1 sounds great. Thanks, Eli