To clarify one point: all bug fixes are welcome on the release branch until the code freeze on Feb 12th. After that, only blocker bugs should be merged to the release branch. I will not be moving JIRAs to 2.6 until after the code freeze.
-David On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 5:21 PM David Arthur <mum...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Kafka developers and friends, > > We now have a release branch for the 2.5 release. The branch name is "2.5" > and the version will be "2.5.0". Trunk will be shortly be bumped to the > next snapshot version 2.6.0-SNAPSHOT > https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/8026 > > I'll be going over the JIRAs to move every non-blocker from this release to > the next release. > > From this point, most changes should go to trunk. > > Blockers (existing and new that we discover while testing the release) > will be committed to both trunk and the 2.5 release branch. > > Please discuss with your reviewer whether your PR should go to trunk or to > trunk+release so they can merge accordingly. > > As always, please help us test the release! > > Thanks! > David Arthur > -- David Arthur
