Definitely a more often release is going to be great. +1 for the monthly cycle.
And if we know we want GA EOY will definitely like to see what we want to have to call Drill 1.0! Tim On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Parth Chandra <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 for monthly releases. > We could follow the Ubuntu model and use the number of the month for the > minor version number . > 0.07 for July, 0.08 for Aug, etc. > > > > > On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Yash Sharma <[email protected]> wrote: > >> +1. Would really love to see a release. >> It would be great if we can have prioritized JIRA's - labelled with 0.4 and >> we can focus solely on those for this week. >> >> Peace, >> Yash >> >> >> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 9:05 PM, Jacques Nadeau <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > Hey Everybody, >> > >> > It has been too long since our last release. So much good stuff has been >> > done in master but we have no release with which people can experiment. >> We >> > need to do a better job of releasing early and often. I think the >> monthly >> > cycle that Optiq and Spark uses works very well and propose we move to >> that >> > model. >> > >> > To kick this off, I propose we do a release next week that is our first >> > development point release that supports distributed execution. There are >> > probably a dozen outstanding patches that would be good to get into this >> > release and I'd like to try to target those but ultimately time-bound the >> > release. >> > >> > With releasing comes a discussion of version numbers. While we initially >> > started out with a milestone versioning scheme, the feedback I've >> received >> > is that it doesn't fit what people expect. As such, I propose moving to >> a >> > more traditional point release scheme. >> > >> > I think that we're probably a month or so away from a good beta release >> > which I think would fairly be considered a 0.5 release. As such, I >> propose >> > that we release 0.4 next week and then increment each month, targeting a >> > 1.0 release towards the end of the year. >> > >> > In summary, my release proposal is to target something similar to: >> > July: 0.4 (dev preview) >> > August: 0.5 (beta) >> > September: 0.6 >> > Oct: 0.7 >> > ... >> > EOY: 1.0 (ga) >> > >> > I think this more frequent release will help users to understand what >> Drill >> > is all about and let them start to experiment with their workloads. This >> > should also drive additional community engagement and new contributions >> > which is what this is all about. >> > >> > thanks, >> > Jacques >> > >>
