This is our daily patch available alert, which is now set up.

Spot checking the list of patch available JIRAs, many have been in this
state for a while. I see some where the developer has been asked to rebase
a patch that no longer applies. In this case should we change these back to
"open" state?

Also in some cases, it was agreed to wait on a patch until a later date.
Assuming we should leave these as patch available, but that implies that
reducing this list down to size 0 seems unattainable.

Just curious to hear others thoughts about when to make patches not
available.
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 8:31 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Issue Subscription
> Filter: PIG patch available (37 issues)
>
> Subscriber: pigdaily
>
> Key         Summary
> PIG-2909    Add a new option for ignoring corrupted files to AvroStorage
> load func
>             https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2909
> PIG-2900    Streaming should provide conf settings in the environment
>             https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2900
> PIG-2879    Pig current releases lack a UDF startsWith.This UDF tests if a
> given string starts with the specified prefix.
>             https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2879
> PIG-2877    Make SchemaTuple work in foreach (and thus, in loads)
>             https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2877
> PIG-2873    Converting bin/pig shell script to python
>             https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2873
> PIG-2863    Add Map[] support to SchemaTuple
>             https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2863
> PIG-2840    Fix SchemaTuple bugs
>             https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2840
> PIG-2834    MultiStorage requires unused constructor argument
>             https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2834
> PIG-2833    org.apache.pig.pigunit.pig.PigServer does not initialize set
> default log level of pigContext
>             https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2833
> PIG-2824    Pushing checking number of fields into LoadFunc
>             https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2824
> PIG-2816    piggybank.jar not getting created with the current buil.xml
>             https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2816
> PIG-2737    TestIndexedStorage is failing, should be refactored
>             https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2737
> PIG-2712    Pig does not call OutputCommitter.abortJob() on the underlying
> OutputFormat
>             https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2712
> PIG-2689    JsonStorage fails to find schema when LimitAdjuster runs
>             https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2689
> PIG-2681    TestDriverPig.countStores() does not correctly count the
> number of stores for pig scripts using variables for the alias
>             https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2681
> PIG-2661    Pig uses an extra job for loading data in Pigmix L9
>             https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2661
> PIG-2657    Print warning if using wrong jython version
>             https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2657
> PIG-2632    Create a SchemaTuple which generates efficient Tuples via code
> gen
>             https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2632
> PIG-2579    Support for multiple input schemas in AvroStorage
>             https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2579
> PIG-2536    Extend pig to support DISTINCT x.(project)
>             https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2536
> PIG-2495    Using merge JOIN from a HBaseStorage produces an error
>             https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2495
> PIG-2417    Streaming UDFs -  allow users to easily write UDFs in
> scripting languages with no JVM implementation.
>             https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2417
> PIG-2362    Rework Ant build.xml to use macrodef instead of antcall
>             https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2362
> PIG-2312    NPE when relation and column share the same name and used in
> Nested Foreach
>             https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2312

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This looks nice and useful.

I would say that stale patches can be can canceled.
The semantics I give to "patch available" is "ready to be committed".
So if a reviewer looks at the patch and it does not apply, I think it is
fair to remove the patch available state.
We should not let this happen too often, otherwise we risk annoying
contributors.
"0 patch available" is a good goal to set according to me (like "0 inbox").

Cheers,

--
Gianmarco

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Bill Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> This is our daily patch available alert, which is now set up.
>
> Spot checking the list of patch available JIRAs, many have been in this
> state for a while. I see some where the developer has been asked to rebase
> a patch that no longer applies. In this case should we change these back to
> "open" state?
>
> Also in some cases, it was agreed to wait on a patch until a later date.
> Assuming we should leave these as patch available, but that implies that
> reducing this list down to size 0 seems unattainable.
>
> Just curious to hear others thoughts about when to make patches not
> available.
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 8:31 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Issue Subscription
> > Filter: PIG patch available (37 issues)
> >
> > Subscriber: pigdaily
> >
> > Key         Summary
> > PIG-2909    Add a new option for ignoring corrupted files to AvroStorage
> > load func
> >             https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2909
> > PIG-2900    Streaming should provide conf settings in the environment
> >             https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2900
> > PIG-2879    Pig current releases lack a UDF startsWith.This UDF tests if
> a
> > given string starts with the specified prefix.
> >             https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2879
> > PIG-2877    Make SchemaTuple work in foreach (and thus, in loads)
> >             https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2877
> > PIG-2873    Converting bin/pig shell script to python
> >             https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2873
> > PIG-2863    Add Map[] support to SchemaTuple
> >             https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2863
> > PIG-2840    Fix SchemaTuple bugs
> >             https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2840
> > PIG-2834    MultiStorage requires unused constructor argument
> >             https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2834
> > PIG-2833    org.apache.pig.pigunit.pig.PigServer does not initialize set
> > default log level of pigContext
> >             https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2833
> > PIG-2824    Pushing checking number of fields into LoadFunc
> >             https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2824
> > PIG-2816    piggybank.jar not getting created with the current buil.xml
> >             https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2816
> > PIG-2737    TestIndexedStorage is failing, should be refactored
> >             https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2737
> > PIG-2712    Pig does not call OutputCommitter.abortJob() on the
> underlying
> > OutputFormat
> >             https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2712
> > PIG-2689    JsonStorage fails to find schema when LimitAdjuster runs
> >             https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2689
> > PIG-2681    TestDriverPig.countStores() does not correctly count the
> > number of stores for pig scripts using variables for the alias
> >             https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2681
> > PIG-2661    Pig uses an extra job for loading data in Pigmix L9
> >             https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2661
> > PIG-2657    Print warning if using wrong jython version
> >             https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2657
> > PIG-2632    Create a SchemaTuple which generates efficient Tuples via
> code
> > gen
> >             https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2632
> > PIG-2579    Support for multiple input schemas in AvroStorage
> >             https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2579