2017-12-01

Haven't written one of these in a month. I had high hopes for RC0, but it failed due to 

We're back to blocker burndown. My new (realistic) goal is to get 3.0.0 out before Christmas. We could always use more help with reviews; most things are patch available.

Highlights:

Red flags:

Previously tracked blockers that have been resolved or dropped:

GA blockers:

• Jira
  server ASF JIRA serverId 5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b key HDFS-12840

  : Has gone through several rounds of review, looks close.

• Jira
  server ASF JIRA serverId 5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b key HADOOP-15080

  : New issue, waiting on LEGAL but we might need to pull this entire feature.

• Jira
  server ASF JIRA serverId 5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b key HADOOP-15059

  : Has gone through some review and has a +1 from Daryn, could use confirmation from Vinod and others

• Jira
  server ASF JIRA serverId 5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b key HADOOP-15058

  : Needs review, asked Allen but might need someone else to help.

GA criticals:

• Jira
  server ASF JIRA serverId 5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b key HDFS-12872

  : Patch needs review

• Jira
  server ASF JIRA serverId 5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b key YARN-7381

  : Has gone through some review and Wangda +1'd, could use confirmation from Ray and others

Features merged for GA:

• Erasure coding
  • Testing is still ongoing at Cloudera, which resulted in 

    Jira
    server ASF JIRA serverId 5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b key HDFS-12840

     and 

    Jira
    server ASF JIRA serverId 5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b key HDFS-12872

    .
• Classpath isolation (HADOOP-11656)
  
  • No change.
• Compat guide (HADOOP-13714)
  • We slid a couple more changes into 3.0.0 after RC0 was cancelled, making this work more complete.
• TSv2 alpha 2
  • No change.
• API-based scheduler configuration 

  Jira
  server ASF JIRA serverId 5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b key YARN-5734

  • No change.
• HDFS router-based configuration 

  Jira
  server ASF JIRA serverId 5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b key HDFS-10467

  • No change.
• Resource types 

  Jira
  server ASF JIRA serverId 5aa69414-a9e9-3523-82ec-879b028fb15b key YARN-3926

  • Had some post-merge issues that were resolved, nothing outstanding.

2017-10-31

Lots of progress towards GA, we look on track for cutting RC0 this week. I ran the versions script to check the branch matches up with JIRA and fixed things up, and also checked that the changelog and release notes look reasonable.

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