How strict do you plan to be with the monthly release cadence? If there's only a few Jira issues resolved on 1.2.x do you still plan to spin those out? I don't understand how doing more releases on the old stable line will incentivize adopters to move to the new stable line.
Other than that, announcement seems fine. On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 2:16 PM, Sean Busbey <bus...@apache.org> wrote: > If anyone has feedback before I send this, please let me know. I've > already updated dist.a.o for the stable line change. I'd like to send > this announcement tomorrow once the mirrors are updated. > > --- > > Hi HBase Community! > > The HBase developers would like you to know that we have updated the > "stable" release pointer to the 1.4.6 release. As future 1.4.z > releases are made the stable pointer will track them. All users of > releases prior to 1.4.6 are advised to upgrade to the new stable > release line. > > The prior stable release line was 1.2.z. I'm in the process of getting > releases on that branch going again. Users of that release line are > advised that once releases start again they will continue monthly for > a period of about 6 months before the branch moves to end-of-life. > > If you are currently a user of a release line older than 1.4 and > there's anything that would make your transition to the stable release > line easier please let us know either via email or JIRAs. >
