2017-04-21

Red flags:

• Less than a month out and some new blockers just surfaced, need to keep pushing.

Miscellaneous blockers

• HADOOP-14284 (Shade Guava everywhere): Progressing, though trying to resolve Curator issues
• HADOOP-13363 (Upgrade to protobuf 3): Waiting on the Guava shading first
  
• HADOOP-14330 (Kerby breaks multiple SPN support): uncovered from secure testing with Oozie, unknown if other Kerby bugs are lurking
• YARN-5894 (fst licensing): no assignee yet

alpha3 features:

• Erasure coding
  • Good burndown of remaining blockers for alpha3, seems on track
  • HDFS-11643 (Balancer fencing fails when writing erasure coded lock file): Close to commit
  • HDFS-11644 (DFSStripedOutputStream should not implement Syncable): API-related issue that affects YARN and HBase

beta1 features:

• Addressing incompatible changes
  • YARN-6142 (compatibility with 2.x): Still need automated testing for this
  • HDFS-11096 (compatibility with 2.x): Still need automated testing for this
• Classpath isolation (HADOOP-11656)
  • Sean has not yet resumed work, but still plans to complete API-related subtasks before alpha3
• Compat guide (HADOOP-13714)
  • Daniel has started working on this

2017-02-21

Red flags:

• Not much movement on EC blockers since last update. Moved out planned alpha3 date as a result from mid-April to mid-May.

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