On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 1:22 PM Andrew Purtell <andrew.purt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> EOL of 2.3 seems premature. > > The stable pointer is still pointing to 2.3. > > Advancing the stable pointer is an obvious prerequisite. If there are any > concerns blocking advancing the pointer to 2.4, this is where we should > start the discussion. > Point taken. I see the only conclusion of our thread [0] was to agree that we should define "stable" criteria. I thought we'd already advanced the marker. [0]: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1cc4528a6a35cd1b0d38398aa61ad642a368901795d6970544d0a0a9%40%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E > On Aug 2, 2021, at 11:23 AM, Nick Dimiduk <ndimi...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > Heya, > > > > I'd like to start a discussion regarding the declaration of the end of > life > > for branch-2.3. This release line has matured nicely, but with the stable > > pointer moving forward, and our community interest in pushing on 2.5 and > > 3.0, I think it's worth considering whether we want to continue putting > > resources into this release line. > > > > I propose we make one final release, 2.3.7, whenever we have enough > commits > > to the branch, or the beginning of October, whichever comes first. > > > > Thoughts? > > > > Thanks, > > Nick >