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
>>>>
>>>
>>
> 

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