I think we also need a formal announcement that the branch is EOM and may only be resuscitated for critical security issues (and may not at that).
To illustrate the need, I noticed the 1.5.3 release made Hadoop Weekly but there was no mention that it is the last expected 1.5.z release. On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 3:46 PM, Christopher <ctubb...@apache.org> wrote: > Good point. > > On Tue, Jul 7, 2015, 15:36 Josh Elser <josh.el...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Upgrade testing out of 1.5.x to 1.6 or 1.7? > > > > Christopher wrote: > > > What else is there to do for 1.5 EOL? We've indicated this already in > > > the 1.5.3 release announcement and we've removed the 1.5 development > > > branch. As far as I'm concerned, I think the last remaining thing to > > > do is to archive the 1.5 parts of the website... and I see no > > > particular rush for that. We can do it along with the next minor or > > > major release. > > > > > > -- > > > Christopher L Tubbs II > > > http://gravatar.com/ctubbsii > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Sean Busbey<bus...@cloudera.com> > > wrote: > > >> I'd like to see the 1.5 EOL happen. > > >> > > >> On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 3:04 PM, Josh Elser<josh.el...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > >> > > >>> Thanks to the efforts spearheaded by Christopher and verified by > > everyone > > >>> else, we now have 1.5.3 and 1.6.3 releases! > > >>> > > >>> To keep the ball rolling, what's next? High level questions that come > > to > > >>> mind... > > >>> > > >>> * When do we do 1.7.1 and/or 1.8.0? > > >>> * What bug-fixes do we have outstanding for 1.7.1? > > >>> * What other minor improvements do people want for 1.8.0? > > >>> * Where does 2.0.0 stand? Should we make a bigger effort to getting > the > > >>> new client API stuff Christopher had started into Apache? > > >>> > > >>> Feel free to brainstorm here and/or on JIRA (tagging relevant issues > to > > >>> the desired fixVersion) > > >>> > > >>> - Josh > > >>> > > >> > > >> > > >> -- > > >> Sean > > > -- Sean
