Can we vote to change the by-laws and then svn merge the branch? Seems better then making a big patch and losing the commit history.
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 9:44 PM, Carl Steinbach <cwsteinb...@gmail.com>wrote: > > First of all I'd like to say thanks for your hard work! I also agree > > that this should go in post 0.12 branch. > > > > Ditto. > > As far as merging this into trunk goes, we're currently hamstrung > by the fact that the Hive Bylaws don't include any provisions covering > development work done on feature branches. Consequently, > the only option currently available for getting this merged into trunk is > to treat it like a regular patch, i.e. file a JIRA ticket, post a patch for > review, get a +1 vote and then wait 24 hours before doing the > actual commit. > > I think we should consider amending the bylaws to include the > feature branch provisions that are currently found in the Hadoop > project bylaws: > > http://hadoop.apache.org/bylaws.html > > Thanks. > > Carl >
