Agree w/ Duo that the 2.x releases have been gated on stability watersheds
rather than features.

What else do we need to add to HBCK2 Duo (apart from a release)?

Related, I was going to work on a 2.0.3 release. It has been a while and a
bunch of good stability work has made it into branch-2.0. Thereafter
though, I was going to let branch-2.0 go unless demand -- Allan Yang? --
and switch instead to helping out on branch-2.2.

S

On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 6:10 PM 张铎(Duo Zhang) <palomino...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I think for the 2.x release the problem is that we are still busy on making
> the code stable, or speak more clearly, to make the procedure v2 framework
> stable... And another big problem is lacking of HBCK2 support. These things
> are all big issues which prevent people to upgrade to 2.x.
>
> Once these things are done, I think a monthly release will not be a big
> problem to the RMs. Just simply run an ITBLL(for now it is not easy to get
> a successful run and then we need to find out why...), and then the
> make_rc.sh can not everything for you...
>
> Sean Busbey <bus...@apache.org> 于2018年11月9日周五 上午9:45写道:
>
> > I think it just shifts the RM burden, no? Like instead of watching e.g.
> > branch-2.2 I instead need to watch branch-2.
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 8, 2018, 17:28 Josh Elser <els...@apache.org wrote:
> >
> > > I think what I'd be concerned about WRT time-based releases is the
> > > burden on RM to keep the branch in a good state. Perhaps we need to not
> > > push that onto an RM and do better about sharing that load (looking in
> > > the mirror).
> > >
> > > However, I do like time-based releases as a means to avoid "hurt
> > > feelings" (e.g. the personal ties of a developer to a feature. "The
> > > release goes out on zzzz/yy/xx, this feature is not yet ready, can go
> > > out one month later.." etc)
> > >
> > > On 11/7/18 2:31 PM, Sean Busbey wrote:
> > > > Hi folks!
> > > >
> > > > Some time ago we talked about trying to get back on track for a more
> > > > regular cadence of minor releases rather than maintenance releases
> > > > (like how we did back pre-1.0). That never quite worked out for the
> > > > HBase 1.y line, but is still something we could make happen for HBase
> > > > 2.
> > > >
> > > > We're coming up on 4 months since the 2.1 release line started. ATM
> > > > there are 63 issues in JIRA that claim to be in 2.2.0 and not in any
> > > > 2.1.z version[1].
> > > >
> > > > The main argument against starting to do a 2.2.0 release is that
> > > > nothing springs out of that list as a "feature" that would entice
> > > > users to upgrade. Waiting for these kinds of selling points to drive
> a
> > > > release is commonly referred to as "feature based releases." I think
> > > > it would be fair to characterize the HBase 2.0 release as feature
> > > > based centered on AMv2.
> > > >
> > > > An alternative to feature based releases is date based releases where
> > > > we decide that e.g. we'll have a minor release each month regardless
> > > > of how much is included in it. This is sometimes also called "train
> > > > releases" as an analogy to how trains leave a station on a set
> > > > schedule without regard to which individual passengers are ready.
> Just
> > > > as you'd catch the next scheduled train if you miss-timed your
> > > > arrival, fixes or features that aren't ready just go in the next
> > > > regular release.
> > > >
> > > > Personally, I really like the idea of doing date based releases for
> > > > minor releases with maintenance releases essentially only happening
> on
> > > > whatever our "stable" designator points at. It would mean those who
> > > > don't want the risk and benefits of our current release-ready work
> > > > could stay on a defined path while we could move away from
> maintaining
> > > > a ton of branches, some of which don't even see releases (currently
> ~3
> > > > that are > 3 months since a release). If some folks had a specific
> > > > need for a different minor release line and were willing to do the
> > > > backport and RM work for that line, they'd of course be free to do
> so.
> > > >
> > > > I know there are some current unknowns around 2.2 specifically. I
> > > > think stack mentioned to me that there's an upgrade consideration
> that
> > > > we need to hammer out since I don't see anything specific to 2.2 in
> > > > the "Upgrade Paths" section of the ref guide right now. While I am
> > > > interested in getting 2.2 going specifically, I'd like to make sure
> we
> > > > address the general topic of regularly getting new minor releases
> out.
> > > > If we already had an expectation that there'd be a minor release
> every
> > > > e.g. month or 2 months then I expect whatever upgrade issue would
> have
> > > > been addressed as a part of the change that caused it going in.
> > > >
> > > > What do folks think?
> > > >
> > > > [1]:
> > > > https://s.apache.org/AAma
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

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