If the speed and clarity are important for the security release, then I would argue for a single-fix release (2.6.2 + HADOOP-12577 only). The verification of the RC and the associated release process would be so much faster.
We would need to do a little bit of special branch creation etc., but it would still be very straightforward. My 2 cents. Sangjin On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Junping Du <j...@hortonworks.com> wrote: > Given there is a critical security fix (HADOOP-12577) coming, I think we > should move faster on releasing 2.6.3. > I would propose to freeze nominating new fixes to 2.6.3 unless they are > critical enough as blocker. We can nominate more fixes later in 2.6.4. > Thoughts? > > Thanks, > > Junping > ________________________________________ > From: sjl...@gmail.com <sjl...@gmail.com> on behalf of Sangjin Lee < > sj...@apache.org> > Sent: Friday, November 20, 2015 7:07 PM > To: mapreduce-...@hadoop.apache.org > Cc: Hadoop Common; yarn-...@hadoop.apache.org; hdfs-dev@hadoop.apache.org > Subject: Re: continuing releases on Apache Hadoop 2.6.x > > It would be great if we can get enough number of fixes by early December. > 18 seems bit on the low side, but if we lose this window it won't be until > next year. > > As for the release management, thanks Chris, Junping, and Haohui for > volunteering! I'll reach out to you to discuss what we do with 2.6.3. I > assume we will have more maintenance releases in the 2.6.x line, so there > will be more opportunities. We do need one person with PMC privileges to be > able to go through all the release management steps without assistance, > which I learned last time. > > Regards, > Sangjin > > On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Sean Busbey <bus...@cloudera.com> wrote: > > > Early december would be great, presuming the RC process doesn't take too > > long. By then it'll already have over a month since the 2.6.2 release and > > I'm sure the folks contributing the 18 patches we already have in would > > like to see their work out there. > > > > On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 7:51 AM, Junping Du <j...@hortonworks.com> wrote: > > > > > +1. Early Dec sounds too early for 2.6.3 release given we only have 18 > > > patches since recently release 2.6.2. > > > We should nominate more fixes and wait a while for the feedback on > 2.6.2. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Junping > > > ________________________________________ > > > From: Vinod Vavilapalli <vino...@hortonworks.com> > > > Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2015 11:34 PM > > > To: yarn-...@hadoop.apache.org > > > Cc: common-...@hadoop.apache.org; hdfs-dev@hadoop.apache.org; > > > mapreduce-...@hadoop.apache.org > > > Subject: Re: continuing releases on Apache Hadoop 2.6.x > > > > > > I see 18 JIRAs across the sub-projects as of now in 2.6.3. Seems like > we > > > will have a reasonable number of fixes if we start an RC early > december. > > > > > > In the mean while, we should also review 2.7.3 and 2.8.0 blocker / > > > critical list and see if it makes sense to backport any of those into > > 2.6.3. > > > > > > +Vinod > > > > > > > > > On Nov 17, 2015, at 5:10 PM, Sangjin Lee <sj...@apache.org<mailto: > > > 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. > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Sean > > >
