On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 10:19 AM, Sean Busbey <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 4:42 PM, Christopher <[email protected]> wrote: >> Ah, my mistake. I thought it was 2.7 and later. Well, then I guess the >> question is whether we should bump to 2.8, then. I'm not a fan of the shim >> layer. I'd rather provide support for downstream packagers trying to >> backport for HTrace3, if anybody ends up requiring that, than provide a >> shim to preserve use of the older HTrace. >> > > Hadoop 2.8 isn't out yet, though it now has no blockers listed in > JIRA. We could ask the Hadoop community what their current thoughts > are on timing. Hadoop 3 has a release manager that has said an initial > alpha release is "close", so maybe we'd be dealing with that first. >
I take this back, it looks like HADOOP-12893 got reopened and is blocking releases again, at least on 2.y.z releases. (that issue is LICENSE/NOTICE getting fixed for Hadoop) -- busbey
