Hi Ferenc, Thank you. Could you please also create the other sub tasks required for the release? You can have a look on the 1.7 release umbrella ticket: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-2924
Thanks in advance, Denes On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 9:58 AM Ferenc Szabo <fsz...@cloudera.com> wrote: > Hi Denes, > > sounds like a plan, I am more than happy to help, thank you for the > opportunity. > I created the umbrella ticket for the release: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-3162 > > Let me know if any help need. > Best regards, > Ferenc Szabo > > On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 10:21 AM, Denes Arvay <de...@cloudera.com> wrote: > > > Hi Flume Community, > > > > Almost a year passed since we've released Flume 1.7. > > More than 50 commits were pushed since then, including documentation > fixes, > > many critical bug fixes and several important features, so I'd like to > > propose to publish the next minor release of Flume. > > > > I'd be happy to be the Release Manager with the help of Ferenc Szabo and > > Marcell Hegedus who have been quite active recently, and Balazs Donat > > Bessenyei who took the lion's share of the work during the previous > release > > - if both community and they are OK with it. > > > > Among others the following major changes will be included in the next > > release: > > > > Fixed bugs: > > - FLUME-2857. Make Kafka Source/Channel/Sink restore default values when > > live updating config > > - FLUME-2812. Fix semaphore leak causing java.lang.Error: Maximum permit > > count exceeded in MemoryChannel > > - FLUME-3020. Improve HDFS Sink escape sequence substitution > > - FLUME-3027. Change Kafka Channel to clear offsets map after commit > > - FLUME-3049. Make HDFS sink rotate more reliably in secure mode > > - FLUME-3080. Close failure in HDFS Sink might cause data loss > > - FLUME-3085. HDFS Sink can skip flushing some BucketWriters, might lead > to > > data loss > > - FLUME-2752. Fix AvroSource startup resource leaks > > - FLUME-2905. Fix NetcatSource file descriptor leak if startup fails > > > > New features: > > - FLUME-2171. Add Interceptor to remove headers from event > > - FLUME-2993. Add support for environment variables in configuration > files > > - New component: HTTP Sink > > - FLUME-3100. Support arbitrary header substitution for topic of Kafka > Sink > > - FLUME-2917. Provide netcat UDP source as alternative to TCP > > > > There are 35 open tickets targeted for 1.8 in patch available state: > > https://s.apache.org/flume-1.8-target-tickets > > > > Plus we also have quite a lot (~65) open pull requests on GitHub: > > https://github.com/apache/flume/pulls > > > > Some of the above mentioned tickets/pull requests already have some > review > > comments, so at least part of this list can get into this release beside > > the already pushed ones. > > > > I'd like to propose to target the week of 11th of September with the > first > > release candidate. That'd mean that the branch date would be the 11th, > any > > significant code change should get in by that date. > > > > If nobody has any concerns then I'm going to create an umbrella ticket to > > track the release process. > > > > Kind regards, > > Denes > > >
