Inline On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 2:11 PM Nick Dimiduk <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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? > Thanks for starting this discussion, Nick. Looking at that report, issues like HBASE-24305, HBASE-25793, or HBASE-25458 that clean up or reduce interfaces or refactor/move classes are probably excluded from a patch release by our guidelines. Conversely, they would not provide much value if backported. I also agree that the motivation for 2.5 here is thin as of now. Refactors, interface improvements, or deprecation removals will be nice-to-haves when there is a 2.5 someday. All the others in the report are either operational improvements that would be nice to backport or bug fixes that should be backported. There might be case by case issues with compatibility during the pick backs, but we can deal with them one at a time. If you are looking for a volunteer to do this, as 2.4 RM I am game. - 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 > -- Best regards, Andrew Words like orphans lost among the crosstalk, meaning torn from truth's decrepit hands - A23, Crosstalk
