Hi folks! It's been about a month since the last 1.3.z release came out. We've been talking about EOM for branch-1.3 for about a year. Most recently, we had a growing consensus[1] to EOM after getting the 1.3.6 release out with the fixes for Jackson in HBASE-22728 out.
Looking at the things that have since landed in branch-1.3 and nothing looks critical (these are all Major or Minor)[2]: - HBASE-23149 hbase shouldPerformMajorCompaction logic is not correct - HBASE-23185 High cpu usage because getTable()#put() gets config value every time - HBASE-23261 Region stuck in transition while splitting - HBASE-18439 Subclasses of o.a.h.h.chaos.actions.Action all use the same logger - HBASE-23207 Log a region open journal - HBASE-23250 Log message about CleanerChore delegate initialization should be at INFO Someone on 1.3.6 can get all these same things fixed by upgrading to our current stable release. Releases on 1.3.z started in 2017. The branch has only averaged ~2 maintenance releases a year; I think reflecting a lack of community interest in maintaining the branch. For comparison 1.4 started about a year later and has already had twice as many maintenance releases. - 1.3.0: 2017-01-16 - 1.3.1: 2017-04-21 - 1.3.2: 2018-03-07 - 1.3.2.1: 2018-06-13 - 1.3.3: 2018-12-21 - 1.3.5: 2019-06-10 - 1.3.6: 2019-10-20 Any objections to shutting branch-1.3 down? If folks show up down the road and want to do the work of maintaining it for some reason, we can always spin it up again. [1]: There's more background if you search farther back, but most recently: * "Considering immediate EOL of branch-1.3 and branch-1.4" https://s.apache.org/f32d0 * https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-22728 * https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-22835 * ANNOUNCE for 1.3.6 included a warning "This is ought to be the last release in the 1.3 line unless something critical comes up within in the next month or so." [2]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/HBASE/versions/12346250
