Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-hadoop-common-dev-archive@www.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-hadoop-common-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9354B188BF for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 19:37:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 8062 invoked by uid 500); 25 Nov 2015 19:37:27 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-hadoop-common-dev-archive@hadoop.apache.org Received: (qmail 7284 invoked by uid 500); 25 Nov 2015 19:37:27 -0000 Mailing-List: contact common-dev-help@hadoop.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: common-dev@hadoop.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list common-dev@hadoop.apache.org Received: (qmail 7242 invoked by uid 99); 25 Nov 2015 19:37:27 -0000 Received: from mail-relay.apache.org (HELO mail-relay.apache.org) (140.211.11.15) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 19:37:27 +0000 Received: from [10.22.10.88] (unknown [192.175.27.10]) by mail-relay.apache.org (ASF Mail Server at mail-relay.apache.org) with ESMTPSA id D2B321A0015; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 19:37:26 +0000 (UTC) From: Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Apple-Mail=_50B1E17C-5FAE-4330-BC3E-196EDA6ABE74" Message-Id: <49120AE6-98D9-4CC2-A6A6-4C322A25F1D6@apache.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 8.2 \(2104\)) Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Looking to a 2.8.0 release Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 11:37:25 -0800 References: <0C22896E-D77B-4DE4-99A2-9D81E150779C@hortonworks.com> To: Hadoop Common , "yarn-dev@hadoop.apache.org" , "hdfs-dev@hadoop.apache.org" , mapreduce-dev@hadoop.apache.org In-Reply-To: <0C22896E-D77B-4DE4-99A2-9D81E150779C@hortonworks.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.2104) --Apple-Mail=_50B1E17C-5FAE-4330-BC3E-196EDA6ABE74 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 I think we=E2=80=99ve 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 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 = wrote: >=20 > - 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 > =E2=80=94 gaining downstream adoption > =E2=80=94 wider testing, > =E2=80=94 yet reserving our right to fix any inadvertent = incompatibilities introduced. --Apple-Mail=_50B1E17C-5FAE-4330-BC3E-196EDA6ABE74--