Please vote on releasing the following candidate as Apache Spark version 1.6.3. The vote is open until Thursday, Oct 20, 2016 at 18:00 PDT and passes if a majority of at least 3+1 PMC votes are cast.
[ ] +1 Release this package as Apache Spark 1.6.3 [ ] -1 Do not release this package because ... The tag to be voted on is v1.6.3-rc1 (7375bb0c825408ea010dcef31c0759cf94ffe5c2) This release candidate addresses 50 JIRA tickets: https://s.apache.org/spark-1.6.3-jira The release files, including signatures, digests, etc. can be found at: http://people.apache.org/~pwendell/spark-releases/spark-1.6.3-rc1-bin/ Release artifacts are signed with the following key: https://people.apache.org/keys/committer/pwendell.asc The staging repository for this release can be found at: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachespark-1205/ The documentation corresponding to this release can be found at: http://people.apache.org/~pwendell/spark-releases/spark-1.6.3-rc1-docs/ ======================================= == How can I help test this release? ======================================= If you are a Spark user, you can help us test this release by taking an existing Spark workload and running on this release candidate, then reporting any regressions from 1.6.2. ================================================ == What justifies a -1 vote for this release? ================================================ This is a maintenance release in the 1.6.x series. Bugs already present in 1.6.2, missing features, or bugs related to new features will not necessarily block this release.
