Forking threads now in order to track all things related to the release. Creating the branch now.
Thanks +Vinod > On Nov 25, 2015, at 11:37 AM, Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli <vino...@apache.org> > wrote: > > I think we’ve converged at a high level w.r.t 2.8. And as I just sent out an > email, I updated the Roadmap wiki reflecting the same: > https://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Roadmap > <https://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Roadmap> > > I plan to create a 2.8 branch EOD today. > > The goal for all of us should be to restrict improvements & fixes to only (a) > the feature-set documented under 2.8 in the RoadMap wiki and (b) other minor > features that are already in 2.8. > > Thanks > +Vinod > > >> On Nov 11, 2015, at 12:13 PM, Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli >> <vino...@hortonworks.com <mailto:vino...@hortonworks.com>> wrote: >> >> - Cut a branch about two weeks from now >> - Do an RC mid next month (leaving ~4weeks since branch-cut) >> - As with 2.7.x series, the first release will still be called as early / >> alpha release in the interest of >> — gaining downstream adoption >> — wider testing, >> — yet reserving our right to fix any inadvertent incompatibilities >> introduced. >
