If nobody else wants to take this, I will. Reid is co-RMing the pending 1.7 release with me. We've been going slow with it waiting for backports but can move forward with it now that the desired work has landed. I am not sensing any particular urgency with 1.x releasing. Anyway, doing 2.4 as well would be only incremental effort.
On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 3:38 PM Nick Dimiduk <ndimi...@apache.org> wrote: > 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 > > > -- Best regards, Andrew Words like orphans lost among the crosstalk, meaning torn from truth's decrepit hands - A23, Crosstalk
