Just noticed this thread. > I would **love** to get the avro-gradle-plugin donation rolling so it would be off the plate of the current maintainer (and donator).
I'd love that too (being the maintainer/donator mentioned). That said, I agree that it probably doesn't make sense to block 1.12.0 for it. That said... any thoughts on how we could accelerate getting it ready? I'm happy to contribute; just need some direction on what needs to be done and coordination. On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 9:34 AM Ismaël Mejía <ieme...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1 to do a release. > > If we want to have a release 'soon' it is probably a good idea to not wait > for the `avro-gradle-plugin` to be included since there is still a good > amount of work to be done to get it merged, so it will end up delaying the > release. > > We don't have a strict policy for new features in patch releases so why > don't we get out a new 1.11.x release with the latest changes > (DirectBlockingBinaryEncoder + nanoseconds + others) and wait for the > 1.12.0 release for the plugin + any maintenance policy changes (which > versions will be maintained, etc) and other eventual backward incompatible > changes. > > Any volunteer to be the release manager? > > Regards, > Ismaël > > > On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 4:36 PM Ryan Skraba <r...@skraba.com> wrote: > > > Hey -- I think a 1.12.0 is a great idea! > > > > There's two things I'd love to see included, but aren't finished... > > > > 1. I would **love** to get the avro-gradle-plugin donation rolling so > > it would be off the plate of the current maintainer (and donator). > > > > 2. It's really irritating that we don't have a "clean" plan for > > updating the website with new releases :O I'm really pleased with > > the new website, and I think we have almost all of the elements in > > place to get this right. > > > > All my best, Ryan > > > > On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 10:09 AM Martin Grigorov <mgrigo...@apache.org> > > wrote: > > > > > > +1 to release 1.12.0 ! > > > > > > BTW there were few other discussions at dev@ about how many branches > to > > > maintain once 1.12.0 is released, for how long, etc. I think this is > also > > > an important topic to conclude on! > > > > > > Regards, > > > Martin > > > > > > On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 11:21 AM Fokko Driesprong <fo...@apache.org> > > wrote: > > > > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > > > I would like to discuss the Apache Avro 1.12.0 release. Recently for > > Java, > > > > we have merged the DirectBlockingBinaryEncoder > > > > <https://github.com/apache/avro/pull/2521> and the support for > > nanosecond > > > > timestamps <https://github.com/apache/avro/pull/2608>. Next to that, > > there > > > > is much more that I think would be great to get out to the public. I > > would > > > > like to know if there is anything that you think should be included > in > > the > > > > release, so we can start planning the next release. Thoughts? > > > > > > > > Kind regards, > > > > Fokko > > > > > > > -- David M. Carr da...@carrclan.us
