Hi, Andrew and Jason Thanks for the feedback!
I will follow the pattern and cut the branch on Feb 1st and start the RC vote around Feb 5th then. Best On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 11:35 AM, Jason Lowe <jl...@oath.com> wrote: > Is it necessary to cut the branch so far ahead of the release? branch-3.0 > is already a maintenance line for 3.0.x releases. Is there a known > feature/improvement planned to go into branch-3.0 that is not desirable for > the 3.0.1 release? > > I have found in the past that branching so early leads to many useful fixes > being unnecessarily postponed to future releases because committers forget > to pick to the new, relatively long-lived patch branch. This becomes > especially true if blockers end up dragging out the ultimate release date, > which has historically been quite common. My preference would be to cut > this branch as close to the RC as possible. > > Jason > > > On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 1:17 PM, Lei Xu <l...@cloudera.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, All >> >> We have released Apache Hadoop 3.0.0 in December [1]. To further >> improve the quality of release, we plan to cut branch-3.0.1 branch >> tomorrow for the preparation of Apache Hadoop 3.0.1 release. The focus >> of 3.0.1 will be fixing blockers (3), critical bugs (1) and bug fixes >> [2]. No new features and improvement should be included. >> >> We plan to cut branch-3.0.1 tomorrow (Jan 10th) and vote for RC on Feb >> 1st, targeting for Feb 9th release. >> >> Please feel free to share your insights. >> >> [1] https://www.mail-archive.com/general@hadoop.apache.org/msg07757.html >> [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12342842 >> >> Best, >> -- >> Lei (Eddy) Xu >> Software Engineer, Cloudera >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: mapreduce-dev-unsubscr...@hadoop.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: mapreduce-dev-h...@hadoop.apache.org >> > -- Lei (Eddy) Xu Software Engineer, Cloudera --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mapreduce-dev-unsubscr...@hadoop.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: mapreduce-dev-h...@hadoop.apache.org