Todd, I see this as being useful for future releases, even if it doesn't get used for this one. Thanks for volunteering to look into that.
On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 11:12 AM, Todd Lipcon <t...@cloudera.com> wrote: > I believe the newer versions of gerrit support a label-like concept called > 'hashtags' (apparently the authors of Gerrit love Instagram). They allow > you to tag a review/commit with arbitrary strings. Perhaps this feature > could be used so that patch authors can tag their reviews/commits as > "stable-candidate" and Jim can easily query for them? Then when it has been > cherry-picked to the branch, a "stable-picked" tag can be added to indicate > it has been merged? > > If this sounds useful, let me know and I can look into enabling the feature > on gerrit.cloudera.org. I think some non-trivial config change has to be > made, though, so would take a week or two. > > -Todd > > On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 9:38 AM, Tim Armstrong <tarmstr...@cloudera.com> > wrote: > >> I think the first sounds easiest. If commit authors really think something >> should go in the release they can always reach out to you. >> >> On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 9:15 AM, Jim Apple <jbap...@cloudera.com> wrote: >> >> > I hadn't decided yet. What do you think? >> > >> > I could test the release, then look for bug fixes that landed in >> > master after my branch started that fix anything that doesn't pass. >> > >> > Or I could reach out to commit authors and ask them, or I could ask >> > them to email me, like you mentioned. >> > >> > Or I could read commit messages and cherry-pick anything that is a bug >> fix. >> > >> > On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 9:01 AM, Tim Armstrong <tarmstr...@cloudera.com> >> > wrote: >> > > How do you plan to choose which commits to cherry-pick? Should we let >> you >> > > know if we think a patch should/shouldn't be part of the release? >> > > >> > > On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 8:44 AM, Tom White <t...@cloudera.com> wrote: >> > > >> > >> Thanks for volunteering to do the release Jim! The plan looks fine to >> > me. >> > >> >> > >> Tom >> > >> >> > >> On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 4:42 PM, Todd Lipcon <t...@cloudera.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > Sounds great to me! >> > >> > >> > >> > Todd >> > >> > >> > >> > On Aug 19, 2016 8:41 AM, "Jim Apple" <jbap...@cloudera.com> wrote: >> > >> > >> > >> >> I would like to volunteer to be the next release manager for an >> > >> >> upcoming Apache Impala 2.7 (incubating) release. I plan to: >> > >> >> >> > >> >> 1. Get a vote done adding to our bylaws the procedure for creating >> a >> > >> >> branch. (See thread from yesterday) >> > >> >> >> > >> >> 2. Create a release branch, possibly backdated a few commits from >> > HEAD >> > >> >> to a commit that looks stable. >> > >> >> >> > >> >> 3. Maintain that branch by cherry-picking bugfix commits from >> > "master" >> > >> >> as necessary to get the tests running cleanly. >> > >> >> >> > >> >> 4. Make a release candidate and call for a vote here, then on the >> > IPMC >> > >> >> list (which is required for Incubator releases) >> > >> >> >> > >> >> Obviously, this glosses over some details about publishing and >> > signing >> > >> >> releases, but I would welcome feedback on this outline. >> > >> >> >> > >> >> > >> > > > > -- > Todd Lipcon > Software Engineer, Cloudera
