Hi Sangjin, I would be happy to volunteer to work with you as a release manager for 2.6.3. Shooting for a time in early December seems reasonable to me. I also agree that if we miss that window, January would be the next best option.
Thanks, Chris On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Sangjin Lee <sj...@apache.org> wrote: > I'd like to pick up this email discussion again. It is time that we started > thinking about the next release in the 2.6.x line. IMO we want to walk the > balance between maintaining a reasonable release cadence and getting a good > amount of high-quality fixes. The timeframe is a little tricky as the > holidays are approaching. If we have enough fixes accumulated in > branch-2.6, some time early December might be a good target for cutting the > first release candidate. Once we miss that window, I think we are looking > at next January. I'd like to hear your thoughts on this. > > It'd be good if someone can volunteer for the release manager for 2.6.3. > I'd be happy to help out in any way I can. Thanks! > > Regards, > Sangjin > > On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 11:45 AM, Vinod Vavilapalli < > vino...@hortonworks.com> > wrote: > > > Just to stress on the following, it is very important that any critical > > bug-fixes that we push into 2.8.0 or even trunk, we should consider them > > for 2.6.3 and 2.7.3 if it makes sense. This is the only way we can avoid > > extremely long release cycles like that of 2.6.1. > > > > Also, to clarify a little, use Target-version if you want a discussion of > > the backport, but if you do end up backporting patches after that, you > > should set the fix-version to be 2.6.1. > > > > Thanks > > +Vinod > > > > > > > On Nov 2, 2015, at 11:29 AM, Sangjin Lee <sj...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > > > As you may have seen, 2.6.2 is out > > > <http://markmail.org/thread/yw53xgz6wzpqnclt>. I have also retargeted > > all > > > open issues that were targeted for 2.6.2 to 2.6.3. > > > > > > Continuing the discussion in the email thread here > > > <http://markmail.org/thread/ofjlzurok223bzyi>, I'd like us to maintain > > the > > > cadence of monthly point releases in the 2.6.x line. It would be great > if > > > we can have 2.6.3 released before the year-end holidays. > > > > > > If you have any bugfixes and improvements that are targeted for 2.7.x > (or > > > 2.8) that you think are applicable to 2.6.x, please *set the target > > version > > > to 2.6.3* and merge them to branch-2.6. Please use your judgment in > terms > > > of the applicability and quality of the changes so that we can ensure > > each > > > point release is consistently better quality than the previous one. > > Thanks > > > everyone! > > > > > > Regards, > > > Sangjin > > > > >
