I haven’t been voting on the RCs because I haven’t yet seen a “release candidate” — a signed artifact (tarball) and its checksums. It seems that while the code is in good shape, release packaging needs some work. I’ll weigh in on the latest RC vote thread.
Julian > On Mar 2, 2017, at 12:33 PM, Harshad Deshmukh <hars...@cs.wisc.edu> wrote: > > Hi Julian, > > Thanks for your inputs. I will modify the report accordingly and send it out > for review. > > Just an update on the release progress - Marc floated a vote for RC5 > (yesterday evening CST) on the dev list, which has gotten more than 3 +1s so > far. It appears that this release candidate (RC5) should be the final one, > therefore I thought this week should be a realistic target for the release. > Marc should have an idea about the next steps, so if I misunderstood > something w.r.t the release estimates, please let me know. > > > On 03/02/2017 02:12 PM, Marc Spehlmann wrote: >> Hi Julian, >> >> I agree that 'this week' is optimistic. Though, we have been going through >> the voting process on @dev, it's likely that the current RC will not pass, >> meaning that we'll need to restart the whole process, as you said. >> >> Considering, 'this month' is probably a more realistic wording. >> >> On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 2:08 PM, Julian Hyde <jh...@apache.org> wrote: >> >>> In answer to the “How does the podling rate their maturity?”. The >>> incubator report used to have categories "Ready to Graduate", “Some >>> Community Growth", "No Release" and "Still Getting Started.” Out of these, >>> I think “No release” fits best. You can add that the first release is well >>> under way. >>> >>> "We will have our first release this week” is a bit optimistic. Remember >>> you need to create a release candidate, pass a vote on the Quickstep list >>> (which takes 3 working days), repeat if there is a problem with the RC, and >>> then pass a vote on the incubator list (which takes 3 working days). Again, >>> the incubator vote might fail, and in fact probably will the first or >>> second time. >>> >>> A true statement is “we are almost ready to start a vote on our first >>> release candidate”. >>> >>> Julian >>> >>> >>>> On Mar 2, 2017, at 11:04 AM, Harshad Deshmukh <hars...@cs.wisc.edu> >>> wrote: >>>> Hi Roman, >>>> >>>> Apologies for the delay. I am not sure how to address two of these >>> questions, hence left them blank. Any inputs in that regard should be >>> helpful. Can you please review the following report? >>>> * Your project name >>>> Apache (incubating) Quickstep >>>> >>>> * A brief description of your project, which assumes no knowledge of >>>> the project or necessarily of its field >>>> Apache Quickstep is high-performance database engine designed to exploit >>> the full potential >>>> of hardware that is packed in modern computing boxes (servers and >>> laptops). >>>> The initial version targets single-node in-memory environments. >>>> >>>> * A list of the three most important issues to address in the move >>>> towards graduation. >>>> 1) Building a Quickstep community >>>> 2) More adoption of the Quickstep technology >>>> 3) Making the technology easier to understand and use >>>> >>>> * Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to be >>>> aware of >>>> None >>>> >>>> * How has the community developed since the last report >>>> >>>> * How has the project developed since the last report. >>>> >>>> We will have our first release this week. Since the last report, >>>> >>>> 1) We have made several changes to the code base. >>>> Some highlights are: Cleaning up the third party library code as per the >>> Apache hygiene, improve the code performance by adding several novel >>> features. >>>> 2) Preparation for release - >>>> Created scripts and step by step procedural documentation for how to >>> make a Quickstep release. Scripts have been added to the main repo while >>> documentation is on confluence. >>>> We went through several release candidates. During this period, we >>> identified some usability issues on our supported platforms and fixed them. >>> Quickstep is now on schedule for a release later this week. >>>> * How does the podling rate their own maturity. >>>> >>>> >>>> On 02/28/2017 10:23 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: >>>>> Bueller? Bueller? Bueller? >>>> -- >>>> Thanks, >>>> Harshad >>>> >>> > > -- > Thanks, > Harshad >
