I added the additional versions earlier today but neglected to notify the list until just now. :)
+1 on the plan. Thanks for keeping us updated and continuing to drive this release, Denes! Mike On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 3:04 AM, Denes Arvay <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Donat, > > Thanks for your help. > Ferenc Szabo is already working on the retargeting, but it's definitely a > good advice to do it in bulk to avoid spamming the lists. > > We have the following action items: > - retarget the tickets > - fix the blockers: there is only one left which I'm aware of: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-3174. To fix that upgrading > the > joda-time is in progress: https://github.com/apache/flume/pull/169 > - the user guide is broken (netcat udp source's table is malformed), I'm > fixing it > - https://github.com/apache/flume/pull/168 needs to be committed. I've > seen > that you've already commented on it, thank you, will reply soon. (Spoiler: > a lot of effort, unfortunately) > - some minor changes need to be done in the documentation (e.g. fixing the > copyright dates, removing/updating the version references in the user > guide). If anybody in the community feels like doing it I'd be more than > happy to review & commit the changes. > - once these are done I'm going to create the 1.8 branch and create the RC1 > release artifact. I'll announce the branching in advance to the dev@ list. > > Thank you, > Denes > > > On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 11:18 AM Bessenyei Balázs Donát <[email protected] > > > wrote: > > > Hi Denes, > > > > It seems to me that 1.8.1 and 1.9.0 releases already exist in our JIRA. > > > > Regarding the retargeting: I'd be happy to batch-edit the necessary > > tickets in order to avoid spamming the mailing lists. > > Once you have a list of actions you'd like to do, please let us know. > > > > > > Thank you, > > > > Donat > > > > 2017-09-11 19:39 GMT+02:00 Denes Arvay <[email protected]>: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I'd like to let you know that we are planning to cut the 1.8 branch > > > tomorrow around 2am PDT. > > > If you think that there any important tickets targeted to 1.8 still > open > > > which needs to be reviewed and committed to get into the release, > please > > > let us know as soon as possible and we'll do our best to push it > through. > > > > > > The ones which couldn't get committed by the branching will be > retargeted > > > to 1.8.1 or 1.9, depending on their type (i.e. bug fixes will be > > retargeted > > > to 1.8.1, new features will be scheduled for 1.9). > > > For this I'd like to ask our PMC members to create these new releases > in > > > Jira, or if it's possible to grant the required Jira permissions to me, > > I'd > > > be more than happy to do this. > > > > > > Thank you, > > > Denes > > > > > > On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 10:21 AM Denes Arvay <[email protected]> > 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 > > >> > > >> > > >
