Inline. On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli <vino...@apache.org > wrote:
> Hi all, > > I feel like we haven't done a great job of maintaining the previous 2.x > releases. Seeing as how long 2.7.0 release has taken, I am sure we will > spend more time stabilizing it, fixing issues etc. > > I propose that we immediately follow up 2.7.0 with a 2.7.1 within 2-3 > weeks. The focus obviously is to have blocker issues, bug-fixes and *no* > features. +1. Having a 2.7.2/2.7.3 to continue stabilizing is also appealing. Would greatly help folks who upgrade to later releases for major bug fixes instead of the new and shiny features. > Improvements are going to be slightly hard to reason about, but I > propose limiting ourselves to very small improvements, if at all. > I would avoid any improvements unless they are to fix severe regressions - performance or otherwise. I guess they become blockers in that case. So, yeah, I suggest no improvements at all. > > The other area of concern with the previous releases had been > compatibility. With help from Li Lu, I got jdiff reinstated in branch-2 > (though patches are not yet in), and did a pass. In the unavoidable event > that we find incompatibilities with 2.7.0, we can fix those in 2.7.1 and > promote that to be the stable release. > Sounds reasonable. > > Thoughts? > > Thanks,+Vinod > -- Karthik Kambatla Software Engineer, Cloudera Inc. -------------------------------------------- http://five.sentenc.es
