Dear all, I will have time and would be happy to help with the release if the PMC release manager could use a second person. I don't have experience with the release process so I might need some detailed pointers on where and how I can help - but if I can help to relieve the load on the release manager, I'm available!
All the best Andrew On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 7:24 PM Neal Richardson <neal.p.richard...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi folks, > It's time to get oriented for our 3.0.0 Arrow release. We had previously > said that we wanted to be release-ready by the end of this week, but that > seems unlikely. There are a number of challenges in front of us, and we > need to step up and address them. Updating on the points I sent out 3 weeks > ago (see below): > > * Release blockers: per > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ARROW/Arrow+3.0.0+Release we > are up to 6 blockers, and that's not a complete list. We have failing > nightly builds, and we don't have any macOS crossbow builds due to > Travis-CI limits, so that means no mac wheels at the moment. So we are not > releasable today. > * Backlog: I did some pushing of issues to 4.0 today, so we're down to > 180ish open issues tagged for 3.0. Please review your own backlogs and bump > anything you aren't going to get done for this release out. > * Pull requests: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pulls shows 118 open PRs > right now. Some of that is probably a holiday backup, but please do spend > some time reviewing and merging (or closing, if appropriate) so we have > fewer things hanging on past this release. > * Release process: despite the burst of interest a while back, there > doesn't seem to have been any movement on the proposed improvements that > would make it less expensive for us to release, and thus be able to release > more frequently. Nevertheless, we still need to release now, and we will > need someone (I believe from the PMC) to volunteer to be release manager > for 3.0. > > If you think you can help on any of these issues, please do! This release > won't happen without some collective effort. > > Thanks, and happy 2021 to you all. > > Neal > > > On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 11:36 AM Neal Richardson < > neal.p.richard...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > I've created > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ARROW/Arrow+3.0.0+Release, > > cloned from our previous release dashboards, for our upcoming release. A > > few things I'd like to draw your attention to: > > > > * Blockers: there are 5 currently. I'm not certain that they all are > > blockers, nor am I sure that there aren't other blockers. I know we've > had > > some issues lately with python wheel builds, and I've added a couple of > > known issues, but there may be others. If you know of other release > > blockers, please note them. > > * There are over 300 unstarted issues tagged for 3.0.0. Given holiday > > schedules and the release target in the first week of January, that's at > > least 200 too many. Please review your backlogs and start bumping things > > out of scope. I've added a 4.0.0 version that you can move things to, if > > you want. > > * Release process improvements: there was some discussion a few weeks ago > > about what could be done to make it easier to cut releases ( > > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r2257603c91336c042633f2bc480f34f58c02d9c67ff1ee1a212933b5%40%3Cdev.arrow.apache.org%3E > ). > > A few tasks were mentioned in that thread. If anyone is going to take > > action, now would be a good time. > > > > Thanks, > > Neal > > > > >
