1.7.0 changes

[Ryan Blue <bl...@cloudera.com>]

Hi everyone,

I've added a PR with the majority of the 1.7.0 changes:

   https://github.com/apache/incubator-parquet-mr/pull/179

Please help us get it reviewed as soon as possible so we can commit it 
and branch for 1.7.0. That will mean we can start merging the other PRs 
again. I still need to update the artifact groupId, but I think we can 
start looking at the code changes.

I also want to bring up the idea of waiting until after the graduation 
resolution goes through to release 1.7.0. Then we could remove the 
incubating disclaimer and use 1.7.0 as the version instead of 
1.7.0-incubating. This wouldn't continue to block master because we 
would do the release from a 1.7.0 branch. Any thoughts?

Thanks,

rb


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Ryan Blue
Software Engineer
Cloudera, Inc.