Bumping this thread... Here are the issues that were mentioned in this thread along with a proposed categorization:
Release Blockers In-progress Amit https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-4190 In-progress Amit https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-4196 Ready to merge Jacques https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-4246 In-review Jinfeng https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-4256 In-progress Jacques https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-4278 Ready to merge Laurent https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-4285 Nice to Have Open Jason/Hakim https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-4247 In-progress Jason https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-4203 Open Jacques https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-4266 Ready to merge Jacques https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-4131 What do others think? Let's try to get the blockers wrapped up in the next day or two and start a release vote... -- Jacques Nadeau CTO and Co-Founder, Dremio On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 1:48 PM, Jason Altekruse <altekruseja...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello All, > > With the allocator changes merged and about a month since the last release > I think it would be good to start a vote soon. I would like to volunteer to > be release manager. > > I know that there were some issues that were identified after the transfer > patch was merged. I think that these issues should be fixed before we cut a > release candidate. > > From looking at the associated JIRAs it looked like there was a possible > short term fix just adjusting the max_query_memory_per_node option, and > some more involved work to change how we determine the correct time to > spill during external sort. I believe it makes sense to make external sort > work well with the newly improved memory accounting before cutting a > release, but I'm not sure how much work is left to be done there. [1] > > Please respond with your thoughts on a release soon and any JIRAs you would > like to include in the release. > > [1] - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-4243 > > Thanks, > Jason >