Hi all,
Now that 2.6.1 is done, it’s time to look forward to 2.6.2. Things to take care of: (#1) Branch: — The first step in this is getting the branch ready. — As I mentioned before [1], the plan is to rebase branch-2.6 based off branch-2.6.1 i.e. start with 2.6.1 + add patches that are already in today’s branch-2.6. This is because, as I noted before, the other way around of applying 150 odd 2.6.1 patches on today’s 2.6 is very cumbersome. — Unless I hear otherwise, we will start this process next week. (#2) Release: — My current idea is to consistently roll out a point release every month, so for 2.6.2, we can target an RC exactly a month from now (2.6.1 release date) (#3) Patches — 2.6.2 will have the few patches that committers already put into branch-2.6. In addition, we should triage and analyze tickets that are already marked [2] against 2.6.2. — Thoughts / inputs welcome on any patches that you want in 2.6.2. Please use “Target Version = 2.6.2” if you want any patch in the release. Thanks, +Vinod [1] Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Hadoop 2.6.1 RC0 http://markmail.org/message/co6m5n6zmdpzsdok [2] 2.6.2 Target tickets: https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12333460