Hi all, I'm pretty excited to see a 2.4 this month if possible. Since I think people were favorable to the idea of time-based releases, how do we feel about just cutting branch-2 and spinning up the release process for our January goal?
Looking at the roadmap (https://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Roadmap), on the HDFS side, I plan to post a branch-2 patch for HDFS-4949 this week, and HDFS-2832 is already in. On the YARN side, it appears that RM HA is in, but the other three features (AHS, unmanaged containers, and dynamic resource configuration) remain unresolved. I think a 2.4 with HDFS-4949, HDFS-2832, and YARN-149 is already a pretty nice release. If it'd help, I'm willing to volunteer as release manager to help get this out the door. Thoughts welcome! Thanks, Andrew
