Heya, I wanted to give an update on progress toward the first 2.3.0 RCs.
Jira has been cleaned up, with a bunch of unlikely tickets kicked out. FixVersions have also been audited to ensure they match what's in git. On first glance, this is shaping up to be a fat release, with over 800 issues in this version [0]. However, it's not quite as scary as all that. I was able to assemble a report of only the issues that are new to this version, tickets that have not seen a previous release [1]. This list is shorter, only about 175 currently, and when it's all said and done, I expect we'll land in somewhere on the order of 200. There are yet a few major tickets to land before the release branch is cut. The two bigger feature work items that I have my eyes on are HBASE-18095 and HBASE-22978. I've also marked HBASE-22972 as a blocker. If you have other new feature work you're hoping to get into 2.3.0, please set the fixVersion and ping me in the comments or your PR. If you have some spare cycles, please take a pass through our open PR's [2]; there's quite a bit of low-hanging fruit in there that could use some attention. Our test situation is still looking a bit rough [3]. A couple brave souls have started working through the flakies [4], but there's more work to be done. That's where we're at. With this amount of work, I expect that puts the first RC sometime the week of Feb 10 or Feb 17. If folks want binaries they can start to abuse before then, let me know and I'll see what can be done. That's what I have for today. Please speak up with questions and concerns. Preemptive thank you to everyone who's been pushing to bring this release together. Your work has not gone unnoticed. Thanks, Nick [0]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/HBASE/versions/12344893 [1]: http://home.apache.org/~ndimiduk/new_for_branch-2.csv [2]: https://github.com/apache/hbase/pulls [3]: https://builds.apache.org/view/H-L/view/HBase/job/HBase%20Nightly/job/branch-2/ [4]: https://builds.apache.org/view/H-L/view/HBase/job/HBase-Find-Flaky-Tests/job/branch-2/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/dashboard.html
