On Nov 12, 2013, at 1:54 PM, Todd Lipcon <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Colin McCabe <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> To be honest, I'm not aware of anything in 2.2.1 that shouldn't be
>> there. However, I have only been following the HDFS and common side
>> of things so I may not have the full picture. Arun, can you give a
>> specific example of something you'd like to "blow away"?
There are bunch of issues in YARN/MapReduce which clearly aren't *critical*,
similarly in HDFS a cursory glance showed up some *enhancements*/*improvements*
in CHANGES.txt which aren't necessary for a patch release, plus things like:
HADOOP-9623
Update jets3t dependency to 0.9.0
Having said that, the HDFS devs know their code the best.
> I agree with Colin. If we've been backporting things into a patch release
> (third version component) which don't belong, we should explicitly call out
> those patches, so we can learn from our mistakes and have a discussion
> about what belongs.
Good point.
Here is a straw man proposal:
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A patch (third version) release should only include *blocker* bugs which are
critical from an operational, security or data-integrity issues.
This way, we can ensure that a minor series release (2.2.x or 2.3.x or 2.4.x)
is always release-able, and more importantly, deploy-able at any point in time.
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Sandy did bring up a related point about timing of releases and the urge for
everyone to cram features/fixes into a dot release.
So, we could remedy that situation by doing a release every 4-6 weeks (2.3, 2.4
etc.) and keep the patch releases limited to blocker bugs.
Thoughts?
thanks,
Arun
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