Some committer only can be a release manager [1] & I don't have objections either if folks are ready to release the 3.x line in another two weeks with mandatorily cherry-picking & testing whatever is there on security@, if possible with some basic testing that in order to just release because "I put some backport effort there" -- "we" don't land up delivering a substandard release.
I will even register my protest with a -1 to this initiative, considering it is overall against the wishes of the current set of active contributors, & when there were mails shooting the project down about the health of the project, that time this spirit wasn't shown, nor did I find anyone who was ready to volunteer to take care of fixing things on 3.x. If you can't find those emails or ignored them... Statmatis you need to retract your vote on the EOL thread as well, so I don't count you in there, I don't think we can play both sides. The vote needs to fail, We don't make decisions "individually" but by consensus of all... -Ayush [1] https://infra.apache.org/release-publishing.html#releasemanager On Sat, 5 Oct 2024 at 11:21, Aman Raj <raja...@microsoft.com.invalid> wrote: > > Sure I can take up the release manager role for 3.2.0. Thanks Vihang, Sankar > and Stamatis for supporting this. > > Is there an updated doc to follow for making a release since I have never > done it before. > > Thanks, > Aman. > > Get Outlook for Android > ________________________________ > From: vihang karajgaonkar <vihan...@apache.org> > Sent: Saturday, October 5, 2024 11:07:36 AM > To: dev@hive.apache.org <dev@hive.apache.org> > Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [DISCUSS] Hive 3.x release > > Thanks Stamatis! > > Is this wiki up to date? > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/HowToRelease#HowToRelease-HiveRelease > > I will wait for a day or two to see if Aman wants to take the lead here. If > not, I can volunteer to release 3.2.0. > > Thanks, > Vihang > > On Fri, Oct 4, 2024 at 3:28 PM Stamatis Zampetakis <zabe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hey Vihang, > > If someone volunteers to become the release manager and can prepare an RC in > the next 1-2 weeks then personally I have no problem testing and voting for > it. > > Even though the EOL vote has started we can postpone the announcement if > there's an RC in progress. > > Best, > Stamatis > > > On Thu, Oct 3, 2024, 3:58 AM vihang karajgaonkar <vihan...@apache.org> wrote: > > While I agree with the overall sentiment and reasoning that we can all focus > on Hive 4.x I would like to register my protest about this decision. There > are 411 commits in branch-3 which are not in branch-3.1 most of those are bug > fixes on 3.1.3. The work/effort to backport these is already been done and > this is not a new effort that we are asking from the community. If all that > is needed is to cut a branch, validate it and make a release out of it, I > feel that that effort is small enough to be taken up and then officially mark > Hive 3.x as EOL. > > On Tue, Oct 1, 2024 at 9:32 PM Ayush Saxena <ayush...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Marking the 3.x release line EOL has no impact on existing users; they > are free to continue using it as they have for the past two years. > This decision is primarily about development focus—we’re officially > acknowledging that we won’t be dedicating efforts to 3.x anymore, > which has already been the case for some time. > > The processes are designed to support the project's long-term health, > and without formally closing this chapter, we risk negatively > affecting the project's future. Every good thing comes to an end, and > it's better to conclude this phase on a positive note rather than > letting it become a burden. > > Let’s push forward together and focus on Hive 4.x! I will start a vote > thread for marking the end of 3.x soon. > > > -Ayush > > On Mon, 30 Sept 2024 at 13:29, Denys Kuzmenko <dkuzme...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > Hive 3.1 is certainly the most widely adopted release line, however, we do > > not see any activity on this line, even in terms of providing security > > fixes and CVE backports. Hive 3.1.3, the most recent release of the 3.x, > > was released on 2022-06-17. > > > > We don't want to scatter our resources so we focus on Hive 4.0 and would > > like to encourage everyone to start using Hive 4.0 where we resolved > > numerous critical bug and security fixes, introduced number of improvements > > and new features.
