Thanks for carrying 0.98 for this long Andrew (+1 on EOL Message). St.Ack On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 4:51 PM, Andrew Purtell <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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) >
