Thanks Dieter. I’m aware of these issues, but I don’t think they are blockers. The idea with releasing backups was that it would be experimental in 2.6, as a way to get the feature into more of the community’s hands and increase development. So far that’s working, as evidenced by your team’s great work!
2.6.0 has been pending since late last year, but kept getting delayed for various reasons. I’m aware of community members who are waiting on this for their next upgrade and frustrated by the delays. It’s unfortunate to release a feature with known bugs, but given it’s experimental and just one small part of the release I don’t think we should delay further. It will take some time to review and merge the jiras you mention, as well as 1-2 others I’m aware of. I will be happy to release 2.6.1 as a quick follow up once these land. What does the PMC think? On Tue, May 7, 2024 at 5:13 AM Dieter De Paepe <diete...@ngdata.com.invalid> wrote: > -1 non binding > > I've done some testing of the backup-restore feature the past days, and > there's still some issues that I think really should be solved for a first > release version. > PRs are available for all of these: > > > * HBASE-28539: backup merging does not work when using cloud storage > as filesystem > * HBASE-28502: backed up tables are not listed correctly in backup > metadata, which causes unreliable backup validation > * HBASE-28568: the set of tables included in incremental backups might > be too big > * HBASE-28562: another possible failure cause for incremental backups > + possibly cause of overly big backup metadata > > I also feel HBASE-28084 is an important one, but there's no PR for that so > far, so I'm fine with skipping that one for 2.6.0. > > Regards, > Dieter > > On 2024/04/29 19:20:27 Bryan Beaudreault wrote: > > Please vote on this Apache hbase release candidate, > > hbase-2.6.0RC4 > > > > The VOTE will remain open for at least 72 hours. > > > > [ ] +1 Release this package as Apache hbase 2.6.0 > > [ ] -1 Do not release this package because ... > > > > The tag to be voted on is 2.6.0RC4: > > > > https://github.com/apache/hbase/tree/2.6.0RC4 > > > > This tag currently points to git reference > > > > de99f8754135ea69adc39da48d2bc2b2710a5366 > > > > The release files, including signatures, digests, as well as CHANGES.md > > and RELEASENOTES.md included in this RC can be found at: > > > > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/hbase/2.6.0RC4/ > > > > Maven artifacts are available in a staging repository at: > > > > https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachehbase-1542/ > > > > Maven artifacts for hadoop3 are available in a staging repository at: > > > > https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachehbase-1543/ > > > > Artifacts were signed with the 0x74EFF462 key which can be found in: > > > > https://downloads.apache.org/hbase/KEYS > > > > To learn more about Apache hbase, please see > > > > http://hbase.apache.org/ > > > > Thanks, > > Your HBase Release Manager > > > >
