Please hold on commits to branch-2; cutting an hbase-2.0.0-beta-2 Release Candidate

[Stack <st...@duboce.net>]

Short Version: Please hold on making commits to branch-2. I am in the
process of cutting a hbase-2.0.0-beta-2 release candidate. It make take me
a day or so.

Long Version:

A miracle happened last night. Our nightly for branch-2 passed [1]. This
means all unit tests ran against hadoop2 and then subsequently, all unit
tests ran against hadoop3. It had been threatening for a while. A few
recent builds passed all unit tests only to fail on a few findbugs issues.

Given this momentous event and that there are over 200 fixes since beta-1,
it is time to push out a beta-2.

Originally beta-2 was supposed to be about making sure we could do a
rolling upgrade from branch-1 to branch-2. This was its theme. The work has
not been done. Also, a bunch of work is still to be done around testing,
compatibility checking, and performance. Perhaps folks are waiting on the
2.0.0 release candidate before they dig in (smile)?

I'll give the all clear once I've cut my release. Thank you for your
patience.
St.Ack


1. See build #415 here
https://builds.apache.org/job/HBase%20Nightly/job/branch-2/

Re: Please hold on commits to branch-2; cutting an hbase-2.0.0-beta-2 Release Candidate

[Sean Busbey <bu...@apache.org>]

Is branch-2 open again now? Sorry if I missed the all-clear but I
could not find it.

On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 11:59 AM, Stack <st...@duboce.net> wrote:
> Short Version: Please hold on making commits to branch-2. I am in the
> process of cutting a hbase-2.0.0-beta-2 release candidate. It make take me
> a day or so.
>
> Long Version:
>
> A miracle happened last night. Our nightly for branch-2 passed [1]. This
> means all unit tests ran against hadoop2 and then subsequently, all unit
> tests ran against hadoop3. It had been threatening for a while. A few
> recent builds passed all unit tests only to fail on a few findbugs issues.
>
> Given this momentous event and that there are over 200 fixes since beta-1,
> it is time to push out a beta-2.
>
> Originally beta-2 was supposed to be about making sure we could do a
> rolling upgrade from branch-1 to branch-2. This was its theme. The work has
> not been done. Also, a bunch of work is still to be done around testing,
> compatibility checking, and performance. Perhaps folks are waiting on the
> 2.0.0 release candidate before they dig in (smile)?
>
> I'll give the all clear once I've cut my release. Thank you for your
> patience.
> St.Ack
>
>
> 1. See build #415 here
> https://builds.apache.org/job/HBase%20Nightly/job/branch-2/