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Subject: Re: [Release thread] 2.8.0 release activities
From: Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli <vinodkv@apache.org>
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To: hdfs-dev@hadoop.apache.org

Sure. The last time I checked, there were 20 odd blocker/critical =
tickets too that=E2=80=99ll need some of my time.

Given that, if you can get them in before a week, we should be good.

+Vinod

> On Feb 5, 2016, at 1:19 PM, Subramaniam V K <subru.vk@gmail.com> =
wrote:
>=20
> Vinod,
>=20
> Thanks for initiating the 2.8 release thread. We are in late review =
stages
> for YARN-4420 (Add REST API for listing reservations) and YARN-2575 =
(Adding
> ACLs for reservation system), hoping to get them by next week. Any =
chance
> you can put off cutting 2.8 by a week as we are planning to deploy
> ReservationSystem and these are critical for that?
>=20
> Cheers,
> Subru
>=20
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Chris Nauroth =
<cnauroth@hortonworks.com>
> wrote:
>=20
>> FYI, I've just needed to raise HDFS-9761 to blocker status for the =
2.8.0
>> release.
>>=20
>> --Chris Nauroth
>>=20
>>=20
>>=20
>>=20
>> On 2/3/16, 6:19 PM, "Karthik Kambatla" <kasha@cloudera.com> wrote:
>>=20
>>> Thanks Vinod. Not labeling 2.8.0 stable sounds perfectly reasonable =
to me.
>>> Let us not call it alpha or beta though, it is quite confusing. :)
>>>=20
>>> On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 8:17 PM, Gangumalla, Uma =
<uma.gangumalla@intel.com
>>>=20
>>> wrote:
>>>=20
>>>> Thanks Vinod. +1 for 2.8 release start.
>>>>=20
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Uma
>>>>=20
>>>> On 2/3/16, 3:53 PM, "Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli" <vinodkv@apache.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>=20
>>>>> Seems like all the features listed in the Roadmap wiki are in. =
I=C2=B9m
>>>> going
>>>>> to try cutting an RC this weekend for a first/non-stable release =
off of
>>>>> branch-2.8.
>>>>>=20
>>>>> Let me know if anyone has any objections/concerns.
>>>>>=20
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> +Vinod
>>>>>=20
>>>>>> On Nov 25, 2015, at 5:59 PM, Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
>>>>>> <vinodkv@apache.org> wrote:
>>>>>>=20
>>>>>> Branch-2.8 is created.
>>>>>>=20
>>>>>> As mentioned before, the goal on branch-2.8 is to put =
improvements /
>>>>>> fixes to existing features with a goal of converging on an alpha
>>>> release
>>>>>> soon.
>>>>>>=20
>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>> +Vinod
>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>> On Nov 25, 2015, at 5:30 PM, Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
>>>>>>> <vinodkv@apache.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>> Forking threads now in order to track all things related to the
>>>>>>> release.
>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>> Creating the branch now.
>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>> +Vinod
>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>>> On Nov 25, 2015, at 11:37 AM, Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
>>>>>>>> <vinodkv@apache.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>>> I think we=C2=B9ve 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>
>>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>>> I plan to create a 2.8 branch EOD today.
>>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>>> +Vinod
>>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>>>> On Nov 11, 2015, at 12:13 PM, Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
>>>>>>>>> <vinodkv@hortonworks.com <mailto:vinodkv@hortonworks.com>> =
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=B9 gaining downstream adoption
>>>>>>>>>  =E2=80=B9 wider testing,
>>>>>>>>>  =E2=80=B9 yet reserving our right to fix any inadvertent
>>>> incompatibilities
>>>>>>>>> introduced.
>>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>=20
>>>>>=20
>>>>=20
>>>>=20
>>=20
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