Nudge, any thoughts?

On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 1:25 AM, Raymie Stata <rst...@altiscale.com> wrote:
> In discussing YARN-1295 it's become clear that I'm confused about the
> outcome of the "Next releases" thread.  I had assumed there would be
> patch releases to 2.2, and indeed one would be coming out early Q1.
> Is this correct?
>
> If so, then things seem a little messed-up right now in 2.2-land.
> There already is a branch-2.2.1, but there hasn't been a release.  And
> branch-2.2 has Maven version 2.2.2-SNAPSHOT.  Due to the "2.3 rename"
> a few weeks ago, it might be that the first patch release for 2.2
> needs to be 2.2.2.  But if so, notice these lists of fixes for 2.2.1:
>
>   https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/YARN/fixforversion/12325667
>   https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS/fixforversion/12325666
>
> Do these need to have their fix-versions updated?
>
>   Raymie
>
>
> P.S. While we're on the subject of point releases, let me check my 
> assumptions.
>
> I assumed that, for release x.y.z, fixes deemed to be "critical bug
> fixes" would be put into branch-x.y as a matter of course.  The Maven
> release-number in branch-x.y would be x.y.(z+1)-SNAPSHOT, and JIRAs
> (to be) committed to branch-x.y would have x.y.(z+1) as one of their
> fix-versions.
>
> When enough fixes have accumulated to warrant a release, or when a fix
> comes up that is critical enough to warrant an immediate release, then
> branch-x-y is branched to branch-x.y.(z+1), and a release is made.
>
> (As Hadoop itself moves from x.y to x.(y+1) and then x.(y+2), the
> threshold for what is considered to be a "critical bug" would
> naturally start to rise, as the effort of back-porting goes up.)
>
> Do I have it right?

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