+1 for creating a maintenance release with a more rapid release cadence and more effort put into stability backports. I think this would really be great for the project.
Colin On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 2:43 AM, Akira AJISAKA <ajisa...@oss.nttdata.co.jp> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > In Hadoop Summit, I joined HDFS BoF and heard from Jason Lowe that Apache > Hadoop developers at Yahoo!, Twitter, and other non-distributors work very > hard to maintenance Hadoop by cherry-picking patches to their own branches. > > I want to share the work with the community. If we can cherry-pick bug fix > patches and have more maintenance releases, it'd be very happy not only for > users but also for developers who work very hard for stabilizing their own > branches. > > To have more maintenance releases, I propose two changes: > > * Major/Minor/Trivial bug fixes can be cherry-picked > * (Roughly) Monthly maintenance release > > I would like to start the work from branch-2.6. If the change will be > accepted by the community, I'm willing to work for the maintenance, as a > release manager. > > Best regards, > Akira
