To meet Nick's objective of a 2.4 release in November, we could wait two or three weeks for the meta replica work to completely land. Will that be sufficient?
On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 10:03 AM Huaxiang Sun <huaxiang...@gmail.com> wrote: > For meta replica work, the task jira is HBASE-18070 > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-18070>. The source side > change > has been committed, Endpoint change is under review. > Meta Replica load balance support at client side is in progress. > > Thanks, > Huaxiang > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 9:42 AM Nick Dimiduk <ndimi...@apache.org> wrote: > > > Thank you Andrew. I was of a similar mind -- if I'm doing 2.3, 2.4 would > be > > only of minimal incremental overhead. It would probably encourage the > early > > retirement of 2.3 :) > > > > Does anyone else have outstanding work they're hoping to see in 2.4? I'd > > love to see an initial RC posted in the first half of November. > > > > Thanks, > > Nick > > > > On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 2:54 PM Andrew Purtell <apurt...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > > > 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 > > > > > > -- Best regards, Andrew Words like orphans lost among the crosstalk, meaning torn from truth's decrepit hands - A23, Crosstalk
