Thanks Mikhail. Looks like a good enough list for justifying a minor release.
HBASE-15181 is almost ready to go. What do you guys think about MOB in branch-1, and possibly in 1.3. There was a separate thread some time ago, don't remember the conclusion there. Enis On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Mikhail Antonov <anto...@apache.org> wrote: > To me it's not really about individual big features (besides, big features > might be hard to accommodate in a minor release), but enough good things to > justify minor release. > > What we can have (unless I'm missing something): > > [Already done or to be further improved] > - HBASE-15177 - more GC-friendly allocations in RPC services > - HBASE-14457 - multi WAL improvements > - HBASE-15222 - optimizations in metrics system, some more metrics > (like HBASE-15135, HBASE-15068) > - HBASE-15306, HBASE-15136 - improving call queues handling > > [To be reviewed?): > - HBASE-15181 - date based tiered compactions (?) > - HBASE-11290 - unlock RegionStates. There was a patch update relatively > recently to it based on comments. > > [Possible?] > - HBASE-13557 - special handling for system tables WALs > - HBASE-13017 - keep table state in meta > > 1.2 was cut off mid-June 2015.. Should be enough time since then for a > minor release. > > Mikhail > > On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 10:56 AM, Enis Söztutar <enis....@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > What are the "features" in current branch-1 that is not there in 1.2? If > > there is none, it is not worth branching yet. > > > > Enis > > > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 7:57 PM, Andrew Purtell < > andrew.purt...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > No, each 0.94.x/0.96.x/98.x was or is a minor release. :-) Sometimes > the > > > changes in those releases could all be considered "point" in scope or > > > effect but not always. Further supporting this point of view, when we > > went > > > from 0.94 to 0.96 it was a major increment, in effect, due to 'the > > > singularity'. > > > > > > Doing a new minor every month would be more like a return to past state > > of > > > affairs, for better or worse, in my humble opinion. > > > > > > > On Feb 24, 2016, at 7:46 PM, Stack <st...@duboce.net> wrote: > > > > > > > >> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 11:50 AM, Elliott Clark <ecl...@apache.org> > > > wrote: > > > >> > > > >> Is it time to branch for 1.3 ? > > > > > > > > > > > >> Sean did a great job getting 1.2 out. However it was a hard > difficult > > > >> process that I wouldn't wish on anyone. Is it time to branch for 1.3 > > and > > > >> start the process of stabilizing again so that we can get a monthly > > > cadence > > > >> for minor releases going? > > > > > > > > > > > > Monthly cadence for minors is upping the ante. We used to be about > > > > monthly's for point releases. > > > > > > > > +1 for the mighty Mikhail as RM. Sean, please UPS him the special > robe > > > that > > > > he has to wear while performing his RMness duties. > > > > > > > > St.Ack > > > > > >