Sangjin, I would be happy to help you with the work for cutting 2.6.5. Thanks! Chris Trezzo
On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 2:44 PM, Akira AJISAKA <ajisa...@oss.nttdata.co.jp> wrote: > Hi Sangjin, > > I'm thinking it's time for 2.6.5 release. Now there are 51 fixed issues in > 2.6.5 and the number is more than 2.6.4 (47). > > > How long do we maintain this line? What would be a sensible EOL policy? > > Ideally 5 years, because most of our customers in Japan are using Hadoop > cluster without upgrading for about 5 years. However, it's probably > impossible for us to achieve the long term maintenance in the community > because the maintenance cost is too high. Therefore, my answer is "longer > is better". > > By the way, I'm thinking we can reduce the maintenance cost by selecting > which branch to maintenance for a long time. An example is Ubuntu LTS. > Ubuntu Server LTS is maintained for 5 years but the other releases are not. > > Regards, > Akira > > On 7/20/16 12:45, Sean Busbey wrote: > >> The HBase community would like more 2.6.z releases. >> >> On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 2:00 PM, Ravi Prakash <ravihad...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> We for one are not using 2.6.* >>> >>> On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 1:21 PM, Sangjin Lee <sj...@apache.org> wrote: >>> >>> It's been a while since we had a release on the 2.6.x line. Is it time to >>>> get ready for a 2.6.5 release? Are folks using and relying on releases >>>> on >>>> 2.6.x? If there is enough interest, I could take that on. Let me know. >>>> >>>> I also want to gauge the community's interest in maintaining the 2.6.x >>>> line. How long do we maintain this line? What would be a sensible EOL >>>> policy? Note that as the main code lines start diverging (java version, >>>> features, etc.), the cost of maintaining multiple release lines does go >>>> up. >>>> I'd love to hear your thoughts. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Sangjin >>>> >>>> >> >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: common-dev-unsubscr...@hadoop.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: common-dev-h...@hadoop.apache.org > >
