The tag tells users where development on the branch ended. Can you elaborate on what is confusing about that?-- Joey Echeverria Chief Architect Cloudera Government Solutions
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Keith Turner <[email protected]> wrote: > -1 > I am opposed to the tag, because I think what it communicates to users is > confusing. I'm in favor of what Christopher suggested. > I was undecided about the general concept of 1.4 EOL, I am still working > w/ some users who are still using 1.4 in the short term. Should they run > into a serious bug, we will very likely fix it. I discussed this situation > w/ Christopher and he suggested if this situation were to occur we could > simply post a patch jira. That plan sounds good w/ me and makes me > comfortable w/ 1.4 EOL now. > On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Sean Busbey <[email protected]> wrote: >> Accumulo Folks, >> >> I would like to declare end of life for the 1.4 branch of development. It's >> been active for a little over two years and the release of 1.6.0 means we >> now have three active releases. >> >> Declaring end of life would mean >> >> * Posting an ANNOUNCE message to the user list >> * No longer accepting issue fix version targets for future 1.4 releases >> * Removing fix version targets of 1.4.x for existing open issues >> * The end of having a long lived 1.4 related branch in git >> * Removing direct references to 1.4.x releases on our download page >> * No longer linking to the 1.4 related documentation from the main >> navigation area >> >> Our issue tracker shows that candidate version 1.4.6 currently has: >> >> * 9 closed issues, none of which are blockers or critical. >> * 1 issue in patch available status, marked critical >> * 18 open issues with a target fix version of 1.4.6, four of which are >> marked critical. >> >> Because there is existing work, but not yet enough to warrant a release, I >> propose >> that on successful passing of this vote we create a "1.4.6-eol" tag with >> the then >> current state of the development branch. >> >> Please vote >> >> [ ] +1 I am in favor of announcing End of Life according to the above plan >> [ ] +-0 I am indifferent >> [ ] -1 I am opposed to the above End of Life plan because... >> >> I'm treating this like a release vote. Thus, it will be handled with >> Majority Approval: >> to pass it will need 3 committers to +1 and more committers voting +1 than >> -1. >> >> Vote will remain open for 72 hours, until Tuesday, May 6 2014, 20:40 UTC >> >> -- >> Sean >>
