+1 for roll out 2.7.0 soon and continuing stabilization in 2.7.1. Agree with Karthik, it's better to exclude all improvements unless it turns out to blocking something.
In terms of jdiff, we have done the compatibility check for quite a while in branch-2. Do we want to back port it to (some of) early releases? Thanks Zhijie ________________________________________ From: Steve Loughran <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2015 12:56 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli Subject: Re: A 2.7.1 release to follow up 2.7.0 There's a couple of S3a fixes coming along which could go into a 2.7.1; they've been held back to avoid rushing them in to 2.7.0 last-minute. > On 9 Apr 2015, at 20:33, Junping Du <[email protected]> wrote: > > +1 (non-binding). > The plan sounds reasonable. We should make our release train more > fast-moving, and predictable - it could benefit our community and ecosystem > in many aspects. > > Thanks, > > Junping > ________________________________________ > From: Arpit Agarwal <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2015 8:23 PM > To: [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected]; [email protected] > Cc: Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli > Subject: Re: A 2.7.1 release to follow up 2.7.0 > > +1 for 2.7.1 and +1 for promoting it to 'stable', assuming it includes no new > features or gratuitous improvements. > > > > > Arpit > > > On 4/9/15, 11:48 AM, "Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I feel like we haven't done a great job of maintaining the previous 2.x >> releases. Seeing as how long 2.7.0 release has taken, I am sure we will >> spend more time stabilizing it, fixing issues etc. >> >> I propose that we immediately follow up 2.7.0 with a 2.7.1 within 2-3 >> weeks. The focus obviously is to have blocker issues, bug-fixes and *no* >> features. Improvements are going to be slightly hard to reason about, but I >> propose limiting ourselves to very small improvements, if at all. >> >> The other area of concern with the previous releases had been >> compatibility. With help from Li Lu, I got jdiff reinstated in branch-2 >> (though patches are not yet in), and did a pass. In the unavoidable event >> that we find incompatibilities with 2.7.0, we can fix those in 2.7.1 and >> promote that to be the stable release. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> Thanks,+Vinod
