Hi Wes, Is it only the PMC members that can volunteer to drive this or can someone from the community volunteer and drive as well if they desire to have a release sooner?
I see that the release process has a fairly comprehensive checklist of tasks here( https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ARROW/Release+Management+Guide), but there are certain requirements, which not all community members will be able to satisfy, for e.g: - Being a committer to be able to push to dist and maven repository - A GPG key in the Apache Web of Trust (cross-signed by other Apache committers/PMC members) to sign the artifacts What parts of the release could a community volunteer help with, given they are not able to satisfy certain release requirements? Regards, Keerat On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 5:27 AM Wes McKinney <wesmck...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think to release more often, a few things are necessary: > > - Other organizations / PMC members must volunteer more time to drive > releases and the process around them. My team (and Krisztian in particular) > together with Kou and Uwe have done the majority of this work the last > couple of years. > > - Some investments in improving the release tooling to be more automated > and less error prone must be made. We’ve talked for example about tearing > out the Maven release machinery for Java, that would be a significant > benefit. > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 12:45 AM Micah Kornfield <emkornfi...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > Are there any plans for a more frequent release cadence? > > > > Not to my knowledge. The release process is still relatively heavy > weight. > > > > Do we have a guide for what goes into major releases vs. minor releases > > > vs. patch releases? > > > > In the current regime [1] we don't expect minor release. So major > releases > > should contain any new features. Patch release should only contain > > regression fixes. > > > > [1] https://arrow.apache.org/docs/format/Versioning.html > > > > On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 8:16 PM James Duong <jam...@bitquilltech.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > My understanding is that Arrow releases are 3 months apart. Are there > any > > > plans for a more frequent release cadence? Do we have a guide for what > > goes > > > into major releases vs. minor releases vs. patch releases? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > -- > > > > > > *James Duong* > > > Lead Software Developer > > > Bit Quill Technologies Inc. > > > Direct: +1.604.562.6082 | jam...@bitquilltech.com > > > https://www.bitquilltech.com > > > > > > This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and > > may > > > contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized > > review, > > > use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the > > > intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and > destroy > > > all copies of the original message. Thank you. > > > > >
