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Missing release tags #7414

Closed brylie closed 5 years ago

brylie commented 5 years ago

There are several missing release tags since 0.28.0. It seems that rc versions are getting tagged, but stable release tags are missing. This makes it difficult to ascertain the frequency of stable releases.

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oliviermichaelis commented 5 years ago

I think there are no stable releases yet due to licensing issues with Apache. See #6785 for further information.

oliviermichaelis commented 5 years ago

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brylie commented 5 years ago

I I now understant more about the underlying reasons for the missing tags.

believe this issue is a broader topic than #6785, and should remain open until the release tags are added.

mistercrunch commented 5 years ago

The ASF told us to not push non-ASF releases to Pypi or as Github tags until we sort out the ASF-compliant release process. I've been working on a release but work is still ongoing. There's a thread or 2 on the dev@ mailing list to follow.

Major work was to sort out licenses and move all 3rd party code out of the source release / Github repo.

webysther commented 5 years ago

@mistercrunch exists any ETA for ASF-compliant release process to be finished?

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brylie commented 5 years ago

Ping. This is a maintenance task that should not fall through the cracks.

ericandrewmeadows commented 5 years ago

@brylie - from my use, v0.33.0rc1 is stable; v0.34.0rc1 is not - I just wanted to give you some insight.

mistercrunch commented 5 years ago

@ericandrewmeadows the RC is getting voted on at this moment as the ASF mailing list, commenting on the voting thread would be more helpful. Also opening bugs with a 0.34 label would help us stabilize the release branch.

mistercrunch commented 5 years ago

The reason there's been no releases (and therefore no release tags other than RCs) is related to the complexity of the process imposed by the ASF along with the lack of volunteers to do the work to comply. It mainly consisted of sorting out and cleaning up licenses in our dep tree, as well as automating the process and preventing regression. Also, well the release process is a bit clunky and hard to automate, especially the email crafting and voting part... Some of the steps have been recently documented here: https://github.com/apache/incubator-superset/tree/master/RELEASING

We were told pretty clearly by ASF folks to not release to pypi or any other methods that don't align with the ASF process. Which is reasonable: if we want to be an ASF project, we should comply to the rules of the ASF. While the community and meritocracy in the project has been vocal about being/staying part of the ASF, people haven't been jumping to offer to work in that direction.

It turns out that crafting a clean-licensed ASF-stamped release is not easy, and it's not super sexy work, so that's why it's taking time.

Luckily the project is super healthy in all metrics other than releases, and well I just kicked off a vote on general@incubator, so watch for the mailing list for a release, hopefully soon.

brylie commented 5 years ago

Perhaps we could create a program to offset Whim users' carbon footprint, e.g. by contributing to sustainability projects via a registered charity. That way we could send a message that we are working to make transportation carbon neutral.

I hope that doesn't preclude Superset from releasing an official Docker image, as that has turned out to be the biggest blocker for our company to even evaluate Superset against other projects like Tableau Server, Redash, Metabase, and Grafana.

micimize commented 5 years ago

@brylie amancevice/superset has started maintaining non-pypi and edge builds. Plenty of ASF projects have official images, so it is not precluded and will likely happen, IMO

mistercrunch commented 5 years ago

0.34.0 is out, now we need to figure out "convenience releases" (pypi / docker/ . ...)

Some instructions to build the source release, with a reference docker file to build from source https://github.com/apache/incubator-superset/tree/master/RELEASING

[From my understanding,] While releasing binaries (anything that would have our minified JS bundles) in the name of the ASF forces us to have a LICENSE file detailing everything that's in that release (700+ libs in the dep tree) and may be tricky to maintain, we can easily share reference dockerfiles (as opposed to images that contain the minified bundles).

The Dockerfile provided in RELEASING/ are not optimized in any way for either build times, image size, or flexibility, but could be modified to take this into account. From my experience it can be difficult to achieve these optimizations and provide something that suits everyone.

micimize commented 5 years ago

@mistercrunch oh jeez, you mean like airflow's licenses dir?

Maybe that number can be cut down by analyzing webpack treeshaking results to see exactly which libraries are bundled. There are also some license crawling tools on npm... sounds like a substantial logistical burden regardless

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