Hi Denis, Sure, that's a great idea! I'm thinking, however, that it makes sense to take a pause after the release and let people try it out on their own so that the experience is as close to real-life as possible. How about closer to the end of January?
-Val On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 8:53 PM Denis Magda <dma...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Val, > > That's the pace, I'll be happy to play with the alpha and share feedback. > Also, what if we arrange a community gathering after the holidays to > demonstrate what alpha does and get more details from the involved > contributors on what's coming next? > > As for the release process, yes, that needs to be a formal vote as long as > you're publishing artifacts to Maven and updating the website with > references to the binaries and documentation pages. > > > - > Denis > > > On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 6:13 PM Valentin Kulichenko < > valentin.kuliche...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Igniters, > > > > The repository for Ignite 3.x [1] was created less than a month ago, and > we > > already have several merged pull requests. Many thanks to everyone > involved > > for the contributions! > > > > Currently, we have the following functionality available in the main > > branch: > > > > - New configuration framework which is compatible with the HOCON > format. > > - The “ignite-runner” module, which currently incorporates the > > aforementioned configuration framework and REST endpoints to interact > > with > > the framework. > > - The first version of the unified CLI tool. > > > > This set of features does not include any actual Ignite APIs. However, it > > clearly demonstrates the basic mechanics of how the product will be > > installed and upgraded, how the user will interact with it, etc. I would > > like to use this to gather feedback from the community in the early > stages. > > > > To make sure the experience is as close to real life as possible, I want > to > > deliver what we have as an alpha release, meaning that all the required > > binaries will be deployed on the website and in Maven. There will also be > > some basic documentation describing how to install and use the product. > > This way, anyone will be able to download the product and try it out. > > > > My main question here -- do we need a formal vote for such a build? Or it > > can be treated as a release candidate? > > > > Any other thoughts? > > > > [1] https://github.com/apache/ignite-3 > > > > -Val > > >
