+1. Early Dec sounds too early for 2.6.3 release given we only have 18 patches since recently release 2.6.2. We should nominate more fixes and wait a while for the feedback on 2.6.2.
Thanks, Junping ________________________________________ From: Vinod Vavilapalli <vino...@hortonworks.com> Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2015 11:34 PM To: yarn-...@hadoop.apache.org Cc: common-dev@hadoop.apache.org; hdfs-...@hadoop.apache.org; mapreduce-...@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: continuing releases on Apache Hadoop 2.6.x I see 18 JIRAs across the sub-projects as of now in 2.6.3. Seems like we will have a reasonable number of fixes if we start an RC early december. In the mean while, we should also review 2.7.3 and 2.8.0 blocker / critical list and see if it makes sense to backport any of those into 2.6.3. +Vinod On Nov 17, 2015, at 5:10 PM, Sangjin Lee <sj...@apache.org<mailto:sj...@apache.org>> wrote: I'd like to pick up this email discussion again. It is time that we started thinking about the next release in the 2.6.x line. IMO we want to walk the balance between maintaining a reasonable release cadence and getting a good amount of high-quality fixes. The timeframe is a little tricky as the holidays are approaching. If we have enough fixes accumulated in branch-2.6, some time early December might be a good target for cutting the first release candidate. Once we miss that window, I think we are looking at next January. I'd like to hear your thoughts on this.