Heya, I'd like to have a planning discussion around our 2.x releases. 2.4 seems to be humming along nicely, I think we won't have a need for 2.3 much longer. Likewise, it seems like it should be time to start planning 2.5, but when I look at the issues unique to that branch [0], I don't see the big new feature that justifies the new minor release. Rather, I see a number of items that should be backported to a 2.4.x. Do we have a big new feature in the works? Should we consider backporting something from master? Or maybe there's enough minor changes on 2.5 to justify the release... but if so, which of them motivate users to upgrade?
So, to summarize: - How much longer do we want to run 2.3? - What issues in the below query can be backported to 2.4? Any volunteers? - What's the big new feature that motivates 2.5? Thanks, Nick [0]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20HBASE%20AND%20resolution%20%3D%20Fixed%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%202.5.0%20AND%20fixVersion%20not%20in%20(2.4.0%2C%202.4.1%2C%202.4.2%2C%202.4.3)%20ORDER%20BY%20priority%20DESC%2C%20updated%20DESC
