I'm against including new features in maintenance releases, since they're meant to be bug-fix only.
If we're struggling with being able to deliver new features in a safe and timely fashion, let's try to address that, not overload the meaning of "maintenance release". Best, Andrew On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 5:20 PM, Zheng, Kai <kai.zh...@intel.com> wrote: > Hi Junping, > > Thank you for making 2.8.2 happen and now planning the 2.8.3 release. > > I have an ask, is it convenient to include the back port work for OSS > connector module? We have some Hadoop users that wish to have it by default > for convenience, though in the past they used it by back porting > themselves. I have raised this and got thoughts from Chris and Steve. Looks > like this is more wanted for 2.9 but I wanted to ask again here for broad > feedback and thoughts by this chance. The back port patch is available for > 2.8 and the one for branch-2 was already in. IMO, 2.8.x is promising as we > can see some shift from 2.7.x, hence it's worth more important features and > efforts. How would you think? Thanks! > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-14964 > > Regards, > Kai > > -----Original Message----- > From: Junping Du [mailto:j...@hortonworks.com] > Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2017 9:02 AM > To: common-...@hadoop.apache.org; hdfs-dev@hadoop.apache.org; > mapreduce-...@hadoop.apache.org; yarn-...@hadoop.apache.org > Subject: Apache Hadoop 2.8.3 Release Plan > > Hi, > We have several important fixes get landed on branch-2.8 and I would > like to cut off branch-2.8.3 now to start 2.8.3 release work. > So far, I don't see any pending blockers on 2.8.3, so my current plan > is to cut off 1st RC of 2.8.3 in next several days: > - For all coming commits to land on branch-2.8, please mark the > fix version as 2.8.4. > - If there is a really important fix for 2.8.3 and getting > closed, please notify me ahead before landing it on branch-2.8.3. > Please let me know if you have any thoughts or comments on the plan. > > Thanks, > > Junping > ________________________________________ > From: dujunp...@gmail.com <dujunp...@gmail.com> on behalf of 俊平堵 < > junping...@apache.org> > Sent: Friday, October 27, 2017 3:33 PM > To: gene...@hadoop.apache.org > Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Apache Hadoop 2.8.2 Release. > > Hi all, > > It gives me great pleasure to announce that the Apache Hadoop > community has voted to release Apache Hadoop 2.8.2, which is now available > for download from Apache mirrors[1]. For download instructions please refer > to the Apache Hadoop Release page [2]. > > Apache Hadoop 2.8.2 is the first GA release of Apache Hadoop 2.8 line and > our newest stable release for entire Apache Hadoop project. For major > changes incuded in Hadoop 2.8 line, please refer Hadoop 2.8.2 main page[3]. > > This release has 315 resolved issues since previous 2.8.1 release with > following > breakdown: > - 91 in Hadoop Common > - 99 in HDFS > - 105 in YARN > - 20 in MapReduce > Please read the log of CHANGES[4] and RELEASENOTES[5] for more details. > > The release news is posted on the Hadoop website too, you can go to the > downloads section directly [6]. > > Thank you all for contributing to the Apache Hadoop release! > > > Cheers, > > Junping > > > [1] http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/hadoop/common > > [2] http://hadoop.apache.org/releases.html > > [3] http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.8.2/index.html > > [4] > http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.8.2/hadoop-project-dist/ > hadoop-common/release/2.8.2/CHANGES.2.8.2.html > > [5] > http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.8.2/hadoop-project-dist/ > hadoop-common/release/2.8.2/RELEASENOTES.2.8.2.html > > [6] http://hadoop.apache.org/releases.html#Download > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: common-dev-unsubscr...@hadoop.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: common-dev-h...@hadoop.apache.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: hdfs-dev-unsubscr...@hadoop.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: hdfs-dev-h...@hadoop.apache.org > >
