About the 4.x-HBase-1.x branch, it seems that I have spoken too soon. Current branch head does not compile with latest HBase-1.1.0-SNAPSHOT:
It seems the RegionScanner changes are the problem. Let me look into how we can resolve those for future compatibility. Enis On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Enis Söztutar <e...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi, > > As per private PMC threads and the dev discussions [1], I have created two > new branches for 4.x development for supporting both HBase-0.98 and > HBase-1.0 versions. The goal is to have 4.4.0 and 4.5.0, etc releases which > support both of the HBase versions and possibly HBase-1.1.0+ as well. > > See [1] for why the branches are needed (this seems like the least bad > approach). Here are the changes I did for this: > > BRANCH CHANGES: > - Committed PHOENIX-1642 to master > - Created branch-4.x-HBase-0.98. Pushed to git repo > - Created branch-4.x-HBase-1.x. Pushed to git repo > - Changed versions to be 4.4.0-HBase-0.98-SNAPSHOT and > 4.4.0-HBase-1.x-SNAPSHOT respectively in above branches > - Cherry-picked PHOENIX-1642 to branch-4.x-HBase-1.x > - Deleted branch named "4.0". (there is no rename of branches in git) > > I have named the branch 4.x-HBase-1.x instead of suffix HBase-1.0 in hopes > that further HBase-1.1, 1.2 can be supported in this branch and we can get > away without branching again for 1.1. See especially HBASE-12972. We can > change this later on if it is not the case. > > > JENKINS CHANGES: > - Disabled Phoenix-4.0 job (Lets keep it around for a couple of days just > in case) > - Created new jobs for these two branches: > > https://builds.apache.org/view/All/job/Phoenix-4.x-HBase-0.98/ > https://builds.apache.org/job/Phoenix-4.x-HBase-1.x/ > > The build should be similar to the previous 4.0 branch builds. > > > JIRA CHANGES: > - Renamed release version 4.4 in jira to 4.4.0 > > > Further changes coming shortly unless objection: > - Delete jenkins job > https://builds.apache.org/view/All/job/Phoenix%202.0/ (does not seem to > be used for more than 1 year) > - Delete jenkins job https://builds.apache.org/view/All/job/Phoenix-2.0/ > - Delete jenkins job https://builds.apache.org/view/All/job/Phoenix-4.0/ > > > How does this affect development and releases? > - Current master is version 5.0.0-SNAPSHOT. It builds with > HBase-1.0.1-SNAPSHOT (from apache snapshots repo). > - branch-4.x-HBase-0.98 is very similar to old 4.0 branch. It builds with > HBase-0.98.9-hadoop2 > - branch-4.x-HBase-1.x is forked from branch-4.x-HBase-0.98 and builds > with HBase-1.0.1-SNAPSHOT. > - There should be two release artifacts (or releases simultaneously) for > 4.4 release. One will have version 4.4.0-HBase-0.98 and the other > 4.4.0-HBase-1.x. We can make it so that the RM creates both releases at the > same time, and the VOTE applies to both releases. > - All changes MUST be committed to both branches for future 4.x releases > unless it is HBase version specific. There is no way to auto-enforce it, so > all committers should take this into account. The patches might differ > sligtly. Before the release RM may do some manual checks to ensure that > every patch is commmitted to both branches. > - Old 4.0 is deleted from git repository. Please re-check or rename your > local branches. Please do not push anything there (as it will re-create the > branch). > - There is only one jira version 4.4.0, which should apply equally to > both release versions. If needed we can differentiate these in jira as > well. Let me know. > - Before the 4.4.0 release, RM should fork both 4.x branches and name > them 4.4-HBase-XXX. At that time, we will have 1 master branch, 2 of 4.x > branches and 2 of 4.4 branches. > > Let me know if you have further concerns. Let's see how well this process > works. > > Thanks, > Enis > > Ref: > [1] http://search-hadoop.com/m/lz2la1GgkPx > >