New features are okay if we're confident they won't introduce regressions. The important thing is that point releases are back-compatible.
Doug On 08/24/2011 09:15 AM, Bill Graham wrote: > I'd love to get AVRO-872 and even AVRO-877 in there (once I finish the unit > tests) if possible. Not sure what the rule is for patches on minor releases > and whether or not these two are bugs or new features, but just thought I'd > throw it out there. > > On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Alejandro Abdelnur <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Thank you! >> >> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Doug Cutting <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Yes, we can make a 1.5.3 release if needed. I'd be happy to roll a >>> candidate and call the vote when the time comes. >>> >>> Doug >>> >>> On 08/23/2011 01:25 PM, Alejandro Abdelnur wrote: >>>> Dear Avro developers, >>>> >>>> I've just opened a JIRA (AVRO-880) to upgrade to Snappy-Java 1.0.3.2. >>>> >>>> Would be possible to have an Avro release (I would assume 1.5.3) that >>>> includes AVRO-880? >>>> >>>> We need this functionality for CDH to ensure we use the snappy-java >>>> nativelib built for the target platform instead of the generic one >>> bundled >>>> in the JAR. >>>> >>>> Thanks. >>>> >>>> Alejandro >>>> >>> >> >
