Every release we ship has bugs, some known, most unknown. I have previously argued against perfectionism in our releases (perfect is the enemy of good), since if a bug isn't so bad and is in a previous release, then maybe we shouldn't hold up a release which has lots of other important fixes. The focus is on keeping forward momentum and preventing regressions. I think people might generally appreciate more but smaller releases with fewer fixes (eg: 0.20.5 has about 18 fixes which seems pretty good, not too high not too low).
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Andrew Purtell <[email protected]> wrote: > This is a slippery slope. > > --- On Tue, 6/8/10, Todd Lipcon <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: Todd Lipcon <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [VOTE] Shall we release hbase-0.20.5 Release Candidate 2 as >> hbase-0.20.5? >> To: [email protected] >> Date: Tuesday, June 8, 2010, 7:26 PM >> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Ryan >> Rawson <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > Should we ship 0.20.5 with the fixes as is? The >> bug is very rare, and >> > while some people might come across it, it is in >> 0.20.4 which is known >> > to be bad. >> > >> > We need to get a better 0.20 out there than >> 0.20.4. What we have is >> > pretty good, and we can fix the next issue in 0.20.6. >> > >> > >> Actually that sounds fair to me. Ignore my -1 conditional >> on us doing an >> 0.20.6 sometime in the next couple weeks. >> >> I'll try to do some cluster testing this week to actually >> put a +1 in >> instead of just retracting a -1 :) >> >> -Todd >> >> >> > -ryan >> > >> > On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Todd Lipcon <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > > Unfortunately -1: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-2670affects >> > > branch as well. >> > > >> > > I'm working on a fix, will target both branch and >> trunk, but may be a >> > couple >> > > days before we can thoroughly test it (this bug >> is devious) >> > > >> > > -Todd >> > > >> > > On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Stack <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > > >> > >> I've posted an hbase 0.20.5 release candidate >> 2 here: >> > >> >> > >> http://people.apache.org/~stack/hbase-0.20.5-candidate-2/ >> > >> >> > >> Should we release this candidate as hbase >> 0.20.5? >> > >> >> > >> It has 18 fixes: http://su.pr/1prW9y >> > >> >> > >> Please take it for a test spin if you have a >> chance. Vote closes >> > >> Friday, the 11th of June. >> > >> >> > >> Yours, >> > >> Your HBase Homies >> > >> >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > -- >> > > Todd Lipcon >> > > Software Engineer, Cloudera >> > > >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Todd Lipcon >> Software Engineer, Cloudera >> > > > > >
