Addressing these accumulated issues in a patch release sounds like a good idea to me.
On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 6:18 PM Jorge Cardoso Leitão <[email protected]> wrote: > > I agree. Segfaults are not nice. > > I can take it. I would possibly need some guidance. > > Best, > Jorge > > > > On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 12:52 AM Neal Richardson < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > As discussed at the biweekly sync call, I wanted to gauge interest in doing > > a 4.0.1 patch release. > > > > There currently are 14 issues in JIRA tagged with 4.0.1 [1]. There are 3 > > segfaults, including one that a cuDF maintainer raised yesterday [2] in > > requesting a patch release. > > > > I don't want to bias the discussion by giving my opinion (yet). I will say > > that the question is whether someone (or multiple people) wants to step up > > and drive a release--if releases were costless, this would be much > > different. We did decide to allow for a simpler patch release process > > (source vote only, not on binary artifacts), so this could be a test for > > whether that does simplify matters and/or lets us better distribute the > > work of producing binary artifacts. > > > > Any thoughts--especially from those who could/would be release manager? > > > > Thanks, > > Neal > > > > > > [1]: > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20ARROW%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%204.0.1 > > [2]: > > > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9444ad73db11fe071a59ef5c084c6d1a02d26d55d23320ea8e0a67ae%40%3Cdev.arrow.apache.org%3E > >
