I just added it to the milestone in JIRA. In general if you want to add a patch to a patch release, you can go into JIRA and add the fix version
I think the most critical patches have all been merged now, is there a reason to delay much longer in cutting a release? We might use the opportunity to produce a slimmed down "Release Management for Patch Releases" guide with some steps omitted (hopefully) On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 2:55 PM Paul Taylor <ptaylor.apa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Would it be possible to include the variant.hpp update > <https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/7053> for nvcc in 0.17.1? > > Thanks, > > Paul > > On 5/4/20 4:17 PM, Wes McKinney wrote: > > hi folks, > > > > We have accumulated a few regressions > > > > ARROW-8657 https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/7089 > > ARROW-8694 https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/7103 > > > > there may be a few others. > > > > I think we should try to make a "streamlined" patch release (after > > surveying incoming bug reports for other serious regressions) if > > possible focused on providing patched binaries to the impacted users > > (in the above, this would be any user of the Parquet portion of the > > C++ library). The hope would be to be able to trim down the work > > required of a release manager in a normal major release in these > > scenarios where we need to get out bugfixes sooner. > > > > Thoughts? > > > > Thanks > > Wes
