Hi Jingchuan Hu
The next major release is a long way off but, if nobody objects to the
idea, would you like to work with me to produce bug fix releases for
1.20? This is new territory for our project but I think we could start
in one of our forks by cherry picking only the bug fix commits from the
master branch to the 1.20.0 branch (the trailing .0 in that branch name
is perhaps a little unfortunate) that was created by the last major
release. We can then open a PR to the 1.20.0 branch in the main repo
and do a review. Once that's approved and merged we can attach a new
tag of drill-1.20.1 and then do the Maven release plugin incantations to
produce and upload the new build artifacts. As we go we can document
and script the process in the way that the major release process has been.
We'll naturally be led to revisit the -hadoop2 build in the process,
which is a good thing because it is unsatisfactory in its current form
which creates a whole new version of Drill (1.20.0-hadoop2), including
source control features like the branch and tag, and is not sensible
since this is only a build of 1.20.x under a different profile, not some
independent version of Drill. Unfortunately the Maven release plugins
we use didn't seem to support this scenario, at least when I looked
while releasing 1.20, so one possibility here is that the project
decides to provide Hadoop 2 support in source form only: users who want
to run with Hadoop 2 must build themselves. We would not be the only
Apache project to do this see e.g. HBase, Phoenix. Or, half way, we
provide a deployable tarball for -hadoop2 but that's it, we don't
populate our Maven repo with the corresponding artifacts.
James
On 2022/03/20 17:15, Jingchuan Hu wrote:
Hi team,
I am here to apply for the role as the release manager of the next drill
release.
As a newcomer to the Drill community. I tried to help the community to get
known by more users through the Drill web-site Chinese version setup.
Committed several PRs for Drill bug fix. Also, helped to summarize the
keynotes of Drill online meetup for our community members to easily "Async"
with Drill activities. And I want to keep those contributions with better
quality in the future.
Over the six months after I joined the community, I am deeply impressed by
our community member's dedication and intelligence. No matter whether I
could be the release manager, I hope that I can grow with Drill.
If there are some suggestions for me, I would really appreciate it.
Sincerely,
Jingchuan
