+1 It would be good to let users play with some of the new features and give feedback.
Regarding the vote, we don't have a precedent for conducting that for a release proposal. So this discussion thread should be sufficient, unless someone feels otherwise. There will certainly be a vote on the RC. On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Sergey Shelukhin <ser...@hortonworks.com> wrote: > Hi. > I would like to start the discussion about the first Hive 2 release and > volunteer to be a release manager. > The branch has existed for a while and has a lot of new exciting features. > > If there are no objections, I’ll start a VOTE thread soon. Please mark the > unfinished features that you’d like to go in, and must-fix bugs via Target > Version field in the JIRAs; we can cut the branch late next weeks assuming > the vote passes (by which time the features that are ready to go should > mostly be in), and work on fixing bugs and making an RC. > > >