Great work. How will we effectively communicate that this release can eat your computer (developer release)? Any pointers from the last 0.89 attempt?
Going to hbase.apache.org -> Downloads -> might directly lead users to download 0.95, and play with it. Should we add something to the home page? Enis On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Jean-Marc Spaggiari <[email protected] > wrote: > This is huge! > > Just looking at the JIRAs is staggering. There is many things I'm > eager to see on a production release. > > Thanks for this develper release! > > JM > > 2013/4/1 Stack <[email protected]>: > > Here is our first 0.95.0 release candidate. Should we put this out as > > 0.95.0? > > > > The 0.95.x series of releases are designated "developer releases", a type > > of release we have done in the past -- see the 0.89.x series -- where we > > let out 'raw', barely-tested product so developers and those generally > > interested can get some early exposure to what our next stable release to > > follow 0.94.x will look like. Putting out these 'rough cuts' also helps > to > > get the feedback started earlier while the release is still baking. > > > > These "developer release" come with no guarantees. We make no > > promises that the next release will be compatible with this one or even > that > > you will be able to preserve data across the update (This is at an > extreme, > > and highly unlikely, but could be the case). No work has been done to > make > > it so you can migrate from 0.94.x HBase. > > > > In spite of all the caveats above, we still need to vote. Remember, the > bar > > is intentionally set lower on these "developer releases"; it will have > to be > > something pretty bad to block this RC going out. There should be a new > > release > > along in a week or two and we can address the offender there. > > > > The release artifacts may be downloaded from: > > > > http://people.apache.org/~stack/hbase-0.95.0RC0/ > > > > Let the vote run for a short time, say, April 3rd. Take it for a quick > > spin. > > > > Over 1500 issues have been closed against 0.95.0. It is tough pulling > out > > the highlights but I think most will be interested in big improvements > > in Mean Time To Recovery, a revamped metrics, support for hadoop1 and > > hadoop2.... the list is long. For the full list of issues fixed see: > > > > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310753&version=12324094 > > > > All feedback is welcome. We'd be interested in getting feedback on > > everything from the packaging, layout, through documentation, UI, and of > > course, > > any bugs found. > > > > Thanks, > > St.Ack >
