JIRAs to include in 0.12 Release

[Chan Lee <ch...@gmail.com>]

Hi all,

These are the current JIRA issues to include in 0.12 release. The ones
marked "(pending)" are waiting for PR review and merge. Please let me know
if there are any missing issues that you'd like to include in the 0.12
release. Thanks!


Fixes
[PIO-56] Unit tests in module core should not require real setup
[PIO-59] "pio app new" sometimes takes long time (pending)
[PIO-60] Fix minor issues with author information
[PIO-62] Investigate RAT issues and other authorship information
[PIO-63] Fix incubator branding issues
[PIO-64] JBDCPEvents unit test fail intermittently
[PIO-72] In `pio-shell` jdbc.StorageClient cannot be loaded
[PIO-91] Hadoop-HDFS artifact missing when creating binary version of
PredictionIO
[PIO-94] Query parsing may throw intractable errors
[PIO-97] Fixes examples of the official templates
[PIO-99] `pio build` exits successfully even when compilation fails
[PIO-100] Remove SLF4J warning messages on pio command
[PIO-102] ESEngineInstances `getAll` results out of order (Elasticsearch
5.x)
[PIO-104] Make proper implementation of plugins
[PIO-107] Removal of examples under examples/experimental
[PIO-117] Cannot delete event data on ESLEvents
[PIO-118] ClassCastException from NullWritable to Text in ESEventsUtil
[PIO-120] Process hangs if Elasticsearch is not available during train
(pending)

New features / Improvements / Refactoring
[PIO-61] Add S3 Modeldata Repository
[PIO-65] Cache downloaded jars in Travis build
[PIO-66] Document JIRA processes and add to public documentation
[PIO-69] Create binary version of PredictionIO as part of release process
[PIO-83] Move to Spark 2.x and Scala 2.11 as the default env with
deprecating (not deprecated) support for previous tools chain
[PIO-90] Improve /batch/events.json endpoint performance
[PIO-95] Configurable request timeout for REST API
[PIO-105] Batch predictions
[PIO-106] Elasticsearch 5.x StorageClient should reuse RestClient
[PIO-110] Refactor common code shared by CreateServer and BatchPredict
[PIO-111] Document pio batchpredict
[PIO-114] Elasticsearch 5.x StorageClient basic HTTP authentication
[PIO-115] Cache name-to-ID lookups for Storage app & channel
[PIO-116] PySpark Support (pending)
[PIO-119] Bump up Elasticsearch to 5.5.2 (pending)

Re: JIRAs to include in 0.12 Release

[Mars Hall <ma...@salesforce.com>]

Wow, so many resolved issues, so much progress! Thank you for sharing this
list Chan.

[PIO-120] Process hangs if Elasticsearch is not available during train
(pending)
  https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIO-120

Would one of you folks review this simple fix PR? The, I'll merge it to
make 0.12.0.
  https://github.com/apache/incubator-predictionio/pull/432

*Mars