The latest version (2.1.0) of Beam Python ( https://pypi.python.org/pypi/apache-beam) is broken due to a change in the "six" dependency (BEAM-2964 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-2964>). For instance, installing "apache-beam" in a clean environment and running "python -m apache_beam.examples.wordcount" results in a failure. This issue is fixed at head with Robert's recent PR (https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/3865).
I propose to cherry-pick this change on top of the 2.1.0 release branch (to form a new 2.1.1 release branch) and call a vote to release version 2.1.1 only for Beam Python. Alternatively, to preserve version alignment we could also re-release Beam Java 2.1.1 with the same code as 2.1.0 modulo the version bump. Thoughts? Best, Charles
