Over in the thread '[DISCUSSION] Sorting out issues for 0.96 for (eventual) release', proposal of branching 0.96 and cutting a 0.95 release is gaining some support. That makes option b a little trickier.
Cheers On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Enis Söztutar <enis....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > It turns out that both Cloudera and Hortonworks have plans to backport > this to 0.94 in their respective distributions (I don't think that is a > secret, apologies if it was). > It seems true :). From my HWX hat, I can say that we are interested in > backporting snapshots into 0.94, and my apache hat says that if (at least) > two companies are interested in this, we should do it in an official apache > branch. Now, having said that, ideally we should not be putting new stuff > into 0.94, which is a stable branch. On Hadoop, since they are past 1.0, > they kind of solved this by adding new features in 1.1, 1.2, etc. > > I propose either: > a) doing an exception for 0.94, and doing the backport there. We can do > off by default. > b) we can do a 0.95 which would basically be 0.94+snapshots. > > a) has the advantage of being the easier to maintain one, but main drawback > would be to introduce possible destabilization and a major feature in the > middle of stable releases > b) has the advantage of being cleaner, but then we have to maintain 0.94, > 0.95 and 0.96. > > Enis > > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Andrew Purtell <apurt...@apache.org > >wrote: > > > Just throwing it out there... If you're still including patch sets in > > nightlies then one of us could port in the snapshots backport from CDH to > > ASF. > > > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Jonathan Hsieh <j...@cloudera.com> > wrote: > > > > > As I mentioned on the jira, I can go either way +/-0 -- currently > > > there is only rpc-related patches that are different between trunk and > > > 0.94. This does however mean more overhead from the folks committing > > > code and testing related to this feature (me, matteo, jesse, ted?), > > > which had me leaning more -0 > > > > > > > > > -- > > Best regards, > > > > - Andy > > > > Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein > > (via Tom White) > > >
