Moving to a 3 month release cycle

[Owen O'Malley <oo...@yahoo-inc.com>]

As the users of Hadoop ask for more stability and fewer release  
upgrades to deal with, I think we should move the release cycle out  
to 3 months from the current 2. I propose that we move the feature- 
freeze date for 0.16 to the first week of January and 0.17 to first  
week of April.

Thoughts?

-- Owen

Re: Moving to a 3 month release cycle

[Arun C Murthy <ar...@yahoo-inc.com>]

On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 10:32:58AM -0800, Owen O'Malley wrote:
>As the users of Hadoop ask for more stability and fewer release  
>upgrades to deal with, I think we should move the release cycle out  
>to 3 months from the current 2. I propose that we move the feature- 
>freeze date for 0.16 to the first week of January and 0.17 to first  
>week of April.
>

+1

Somewhat related issue: Starting with 0.16.0 I propose we introduce the notion of 'Experimental Features' (all which are turned 'off' by default, of course) so that users could have early access to some features which they request/implement but haven't been soaked enough. One e.g. which comes to mind is: HADOOP-2076, where Christian proposes that the TTs monitor system resources and on detection of contention holds off asking for new tasks. Thoughts?

Arun

>Thoughts?
>
>-- Owen

Re: Moving to a 3 month release cycle

[Nigel Daley <nd...@yahoo-inc.com>]

On Nov 13, 2007, at 10:32 AM, Owen O'Malley wrote:

> As the users of Hadoop ask for more stability and fewer release  
> upgrades to deal with, I think we should move the release cycle out  
> to 3 months from the current 2. I propose that we move the feature- 
> freeze date for 0.16 to the first week of January and 0.17 to first  
> week of April.

+1

Nige

Re: Moving to a 3 month release cycle

[Doug Cutting <cu...@apache.org>]

Owen O'Malley wrote:
> As the users of Hadoop ask for more stability and fewer release upgrades 
> to deal with, I think we should move the release cycle out to 3 months 
> from the current 2. I propose that we move the feature-freeze date for 
> 0.16 to the first week of January and 0.17 to first week of April.

I'm okay with this.  I don't think we should add 0.17 to Jira until 
around the time we freeze 0.16 though.  The fewer active releases there 
are in Jira, the fewer mis-assigned issues we see.

Doug