Re: 5.0.0 Release and Release Manager

[Ian Cook <ia...@ursacomputing.com>]

We should post the 5.0.0 release blog post soon. If anyone would like
to review the content or make changes or additions, please do so as
soon as possible:
https://github.com/apache/arrow-site/pull/127

Thanks,
Ian

On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 1:44 PM Neal Richardson
<ne...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've started a draft blog post for the 5.0.0 release:
> https://github.com/apache/arrow-site/pull/127
>
> Please start filling in sections--you can commit directly to my branch,
> make GitHub suggestions, however you want. Please keep in mind that the
> audience of this document is Arrow users, not Arrow developers. No need to
> enumerate every JIRA issue closed, that's for the changelog. Instead, try
> to give a higher-level presentation of what's in the release and why
> someone should care to install the latest.
>
> Thanks,
> Neal
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 6:09 AM Joris Van den Bossche <
> jorisvandenbossche@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Karik,
> >
> > Thanks for the reminder, I just took a look at your PR, I think it should
> > be ready now to be included in 5.0.0.
> >
> > Joris
> >
> > On Fri, 16 Jul 2021 at 09:56, Karik Isichei <ka...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I think ARROW-13086 (JIRA
> > > <
> > >
> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-13086?jql=project%20%3D%20ARROW%20AND%20status%20in%20(Open%2C%20%22In%20Progress%22%2C%20Reopened)%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%205.0.0
> > > >
> > > / PR <https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/10575>) is ready to merge
> > (only
> > > the Travis CI build is failing). If it isn't and I've missed something
> > let
> > > me know I will be able to work on it this evening.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Karik
> > >
> > > On Fri, 16 Jul 2021 at 02:41, Neal Richardson <
> > neal.p.richardson@gmail.com
> > > >
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi folks,
> > > > We're down to 32 (non-Rust) JIRA issues [1] left in the 5.0.0 scope, so
> > > > we're close to being release-ready. If you have things you're working
> > on
> > > > for the release, please get them merged in the next day or so or else
> > > bump
> > > > them out of scope. I think we can plan on cutting rc0 at the beginning
> > of
> > > > next week. Thanks all for your hard work to get us here.
> > > >
> > > > Neal
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > [1]:
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20ARROW%20AND%20status%20in%20(Open%2C%20%22In%20Progress%22%2C%20Reopened)%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%205.0.0
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 7:10 AM Andrew Lamb <al...@influxdata.com>
> > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I volunteer / plan to prepare the 5.0 releases for the Arrow Rust
> > > > > implementation (arrow-rs),  which is a separate release artifact,
> > but I
> > > > do
> > > > > not have time to make releases for other languages.
> > > > >
> > > > > On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 6:17 AM Alessandro Molina <
> > > > > alessandro@ursacomputing.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > As mentioned in the biweekly sync call, we are approaching the
> > wished
> > > > > date
> > > > > > for the 5.0.0 release, which should happen at the end of next week,
> > > or
> > > > > > worst case the week after.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Apart from my usual recommendation to take a look at the TODO
> > Backlog
> > > > at
> > > > > >
> > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ARROW/Arrow+5.0.0+Release
> > > > > and
> > > > > > defer to 6.0.0 any ticket you don't think you will be able to
> > tackle
> > > in
> > > > > the
> > > > > > next week or two, I think that we also need to start raising the
> > > topic
> > > > of
> > > > > > who is willing to be the release manager for this round.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > At the biweekly call Jorge already mentioned that he might not be
> > > able
> > > > to
> > > > > > take care of this release like he did for 4.0.1, so if anyone one
> > > else
> > > > is
> > > > > > willing to take over the process I think it would be great to start
> > > > > > assessing who might be able to do so.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks!
> > > > > > Alessandro
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >