+1 From: Sakthi <[email protected]> Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, December 2, 2019 at 3:32 AM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] EOM branch-1.3
+1 On Sun, Dec 1, 2019 at 6:28 PM Andrew Purtell <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: +1 for EOL of 1.3. Onward to 1.6! > On Dec 1, 2019, at 5:38 PM, Sean Busbey > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > 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
