Hi everyone,
In Hadoop Summit, I joined HDFS BoF and heard from Jason Lowe that
Apache Hadoop developers at Yahoo!, Twitter, and other non-distributors
work very hard to maintenance Hadoop by cherry-picking patches to their
own branches.
I want to share the work with the community. If we can cherry-pick bug
fix patches and have more maintenance releases, it'd be very happy not
only for users but also for developers who work very hard for
stabilizing their own branches.
To have more maintenance releases, I propose two changes:
* Major/Minor/Trivial bug fixes can be cherry-picked
* (Roughly) Monthly maintenance release
I would like to start the work from branch-2.6. If the change will be
accepted by the community, I'm willing to work for the maintenance, as a
release manager.
Best regards,
Akira
