HBasers, Happy new year!
The 0.98 branch has had a great run at a fairly constant release cadence, producing 24 releases in all. I served as the branch RM for 98 for all of that time, and now I feel the time has come to move on to work with more recent code. Therefore please consider this my resignation as such (it's an informal position after all (smile)) from the role of branch 98 RM. It will be up to the PMC to decide what to do about 98 going forward. My recommendation is to put out the message that 98 branch has been end of lifed (EOL). There is no reason someone else couldn't don the RM hat and put out an additional 98 release, for example, in order to deal with a critical fix for something we just can't abide shipping as the last release of anything. That person might even be me. However, without a dedicated shepard the management of the 98 branch is pretty difficult these days. It requires Java 6 to build, which requires a hack to its security classes to communicate with modern SSL servers like repository.apache.org, and mandates Hadoop 1 compatibility, which can lead to tricky problems found only at release time. Backports are rarely clean. Assume 30 minutes to 2 hours work for each attempt at a backport, including time for tests to complete. Maintaining and releasing 98 branch will be a time commitment. FWIW. All that said if someone else would like to step up into the 98 RM role, then we don't need to consider calling it EOL. However, as I've said, that is my humble recommendation to the PMC. -- Best regards, - Andy If you are given a choice, you believe you have acted freely. - Raymond Teller (via Peter Watts)
