Hi All, It has been nearly a year now since 1.2.1 was released, and I said then that I would keep the branch open for further bugfixes with a view of making another 1.2.2 stability upgrade release. There have been 64 such patches committed since then.
I think it's time we revisited that and looked to making a 1.2.2 release to reflect 1.2.1 + all these updates, and I will go ahead and start rolling out release candidates after next weekend(May 16th) unless anyone has any objections. If anyone wants to get in any other patches before then, please feel free to do so. The original restrictions for commits to branch-1.2, that of no breaking changes, no db changes and no large features still applies, and I'll do a full test verification before pushing it out. If anyone has any patches that they think will take longer than next week, but are important fixes that need to be in this, please ping me. I will edit the wiki ( https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Hive+1.2+Release+Status ) to reflect this. Thanks, -Sushanth
