Hi, I plan to start cutting release candidates for Hive 0.8.1 on Friday (1/20). The primary driver for 0.8.1 is the Apache Bigtop project which needs a Hive 0.8 release artifact by the end of the month that includes HIVE-2631 and HIVE-2629. Please email me in advance if you want to backport any other patches to 0.8.1.
Thanks. Carl
