Bump. We still need a volunteer for a release manager for 2.4. If we delay much longer, we'll need another discussion, which is whether we still want to target the 6-month cadence on minor releases.
In terms of outstanding work I'm hoping to see in 2.4, I'd like to get a number of these normalizer improvements in [0], or determine that they're not a problem. I think there's work on meta region replicas that's also targeting this release, but I don't have a JIRA handy. Are there other features folks are actively working on with 2.4 in mind? Please keep in mind that there's really only about 4 weeks worth of dev time left before we'll need a feature freeze for stabilizing and the first RC. Thanks, Nick [0]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20HBASE%20AND%20resolution%20%3D%20Unresolved%20AND%20component%20%3D%20Normalizer%20ORDER%20BY%20issuetype%20DESC On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 10:36 AM Nick Dimiduk <ndimi...@apache.org> wrote: > Heya! > > Now that 2.3.x is in maintenance mode, I'd like to start a discussion on > 2.4. We've long agreed that a more frequent cadence of minor releases is > superior to a long gap between them. I think we should target a 2.4.0 > release sometime before the end of the calendar year, perhaps the first > weeks of December. > > Hopefully the workload for the next release manager isn't as high as it > was for 2.3, given that much of the test stabilization effort happened on > branch-2. However, we are running in a new jenkins environment, and entropy > is nothing if not persistent, which puts that hard-won stability back into > doubt. Thus, I think it would be good if we can start sooner than later. > > Would anyone like to volunteer to run the 2.4 release line? The level of > effort is admittedly non-negligible: (1) stabilize branch-2 (2) test > new-for-branch-2 features (3) run initial release (4) cut monthly patch > releases until 2.5 is out. I have a strong interest in seeing this release > through, so I volunteer to assist with these activities. > > Thanks, > Nick >
