I recall there are some other issues that have been reported or fixed that are critical and not yet marked with 0.16.1.
I'm also OK with doing a 0.17.0 release sooner On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 11:31 AM Neal Richardson <neal.p.richard...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I would also be more supportive of doing 0.17 earlier instead of a patch > release. > > Neal > > > On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 9:29 AM Neal Richardson <neal.p.richard...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > If releases were costless to make, I'd be all for it, but it's not clear > > to me that it's worth the diversion from other priorities to make a release > > right now. Nothing on > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20ARROW%20AND%20status%20%3D%20Resolved%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%200.16.1 > > jumps out to me as super urgent--what are you seeing as critical? > > > > If we did decide to go forward, would it be possible to do a release that > > is limited to the affected implementations (say, do a Python-only release)? > > That might reduce the cost of building and verifying enough to make it > > reasonable to consider. > > > > Neal > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 8:19 AM Krisztián Szűcs <szucs.kriszt...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > >> On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 5:07 PM Wes McKinney <wesmck...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > > >> > hi folks, > >> > > >> > There have been a number of critical issues reported (many of them > >> > fixed already) since 0.16.0 was released. Is there interest in > >> > preparing a patch 0.16.1 release (with backported patches onto a > >> > maint-0.16.x branch as with 0.15.1) since the next major release is a > >> > minimum of 6-8 weeks away from general availability? > >> > > >> > Did the 0.15.1 patch release helper script that Krisztian wrote get > >> > contributed as a PR? > >> Not yet, but it is available at > >> https://gist.github.com/kszucs/b2743546044ccd3215e5bb34fa0d76a0 > >> > > >> > Thanks > >> > Wes > >> > >
