Thank you for your feedback, Quanlong! :)
> However, 4 months seems like a pretty long testing time.
Yes, you may feel that way. It depends on the project. :)
When I started Apache ORC 1.7 preparation, I cut `branch-1.7` on June 27th,
2021. Preparing Apache ORC 1.7.0 took almost 3 months and it was released
on September 15th, 2021.
https://lists.apache.org/thread/5rxmqb4g0rlt0yj2kx9tx6q8z19bozr3
(FYI: Apache ORC branches)
At this time, the test scope of Apache ORC 1.8.0 has been increased because
we added PyArrow/Dask support officially (although it's mostly dependent on
the Apache Arrow layer.)
> Do we have any plans for the tests?
> Impala currently uses a snapshot version of ORC.
At every release, Apache ORC community is trying to revisit and help most
registered downstreams. As you know, it is not easy. As of today, some
projects are behind and some projects like Trino are not tested by us at
all.
https://orc.apache.org/docs/adopters.html
If you add Impala to this page and help with the verification, it would be
great at this time.
Lastly, if you have any new feature, you can still backport it. Since
the Apache ORC PMC won't block you, don't worry about that. :)
Dongjoon.
On Tue, May 3, 2022 at 1:34 AM Quanlong Huang <huangquanl...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> +1 for the feature freeze plan.
>
> However, 4 months seems like a pretty long testing time. Do we have
> any plans for the tests? Impala currently uses a snapshot version of
> ORC. But it can only cover the C++ client part. I'm not sure if there
> are any other projects using snapshot versions of ORC. So they can
> also improve our test coverage.
>
> Thanks,
> Quanlong
>
> On Tue, May 3, 2022 at 3:49 AM Dongjoon Hyun <dongj...@apache.org> wrote:
> >
> > Thank you, William
> >
> > Dongjoon.
> >
> > On 2022/04/29 22:56:15 "William H." wrote:
> > > +1
> > >
> > > It sounds good to me!
> > >
> > > Bests,
> > > William
> > >
> > > On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 3:10 PM Dongjoon Hyun <dongjoon.h...@gmail.com
> >
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi, All.
> > > >
> > > > Apache ORC 1.8 is planned on September 15th and the milestone is
> here.
> > > >
> > > > https://github.com/apache/orc/milestone/2 (3 Open, 105 Closed)
> > > >
> > > > To give sufficient testing time (4 months), I'd like to propose to
> start a
> > > > soft feature freeze by creating `branch-1.8`.
> > > >
> > > > After cutting branches,
> > > >
> > > > - `main` branch will target Apache ORC 1.9.
> > > >
> > > > - All new commits on the `main` branch are supposed to be shipped at
> Apache
> > > > ORC 1.9.0 by default.
> > > >
> > > > - The ORC committers still can do manual backporting if needed
> (because
> > > > this is a soft-cut)
> > > >
> > > > What do you think about the above plan?
> > > >
> > > > Best,
> > > > Dongjoon.
> > > >
> > >
>
