Thanks Andrew for carrying this. +1 on the EOL messaging.
Enis On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 10:37 AM, Mikhail Antonov <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah - thank you for all hard work and time investment on reviews, > cherry-picking, backporting and testing Andrew! > > +1 to retire 0.98. > > -Mikhail > > On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 10:28 AM, Sean Busbey <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks for all the hard work around 0.98 Andrew! > > > > I'm +1 on retiring 0.98, but I think we should solicit feedback from > > user@hbase before making a decision. > > > > On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 6:51 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) > > > > > > -- > Thanks, > Michael Antonov >
