Releasability of trunk won't be impacted by this. e.g., If someone wants to do a release for Hive 3.0 as soon as we cut branch-2 that should not be an issue. We ofcourse will label it as alpha. After that doing more alpha or beta releases can go on as long as we as community wants to keep those qualifiers.
On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 4:46 PM, Edward Capriolo <edlinuxg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Im not a fan of this our feature branching was supposed to protect us from > broken trumk syndrome. > > I am a believer in releaseable trunk. Make it work and keep it working. > > On Friday, March 3, 2017, Sergey Shelukhin <ser...@hortonworks.com> wrote: > > > Can we at least release 2.2 first? There’s massive amount of unreleased > > code right now on master. > > > > On 17/3/3, 13:50, "Ashutosh Chauhan" <hashut...@apache.org > <javascript:;>> > > wrote: > > > > >Hi all, > > > > > >Hive project has come a long way. With wide-spread adoption also comes > > >expectations. Expectation of being backward compatible and not breaking > > >things. However that doesn't come free of cost and results in lot of > > >legacy > > >code which can't be refactored without fear of breaking things. As a > > >result > > >project has accumulated lot of debt over time. At the same time there > are > > >also lot of features which have seen little uptake. We may want to drop > > >some of those. > > > > > >In order to move forward and shed that debt we may need a major version > > >release which allows us to make backward incompatible changes and drop > > >rarely used features. At the same time there are lots of users which are > > >consuming currently released 2.1 , 2.2 branches and expect them to stay > on > > >it for some time. So, I propose that we create branch-2 from current tip > > >and do future 2.x releases from that branch and keep it backward > > >compatible. This will allow devs to land breaking changes on master and > > >pave way to release hive 3.0 in future. > > > > > >Ofcourse, each specific incompatible change and feature drop even on > > >master need to be evaluated on its own merit on corresponding jira. This > > >email is just a solicitation of feedback for creating branch-2 and > > >allowing > > >breaking changes in master. Thoughts? > > > > > >Thanks, > > >Ashutosh > > > > > > -- > Sorry this was sent from mobile. Will do less grammar and spell check than > usual. >
