Especially as nothing that would be going into the 0.x release is a major 
feature or changes compatibility (from my understanding), I would +1 the 0.7.3 
suggestion.

Andy LoPresto
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> On Feb 24, 2017, at 2:07 PM, Tony Kurc <trk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I think it is probably worth clarifying the intent of the support language.
> I believe the intent was to support 0.x for a year after 1.x was released.
> That was how I initially read the document you mentioned. But after a
> re-read, I'd echo your concerns about dragging old major lines along.
> 
> Tony
> 
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 4:12 PM, Joe Witt <joe.w...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Brandon,
>> 
>> My concern is the language used when we published this "We support the
>> newest major release line (0.x, 1.x) and any previous major release
>> lines for up to one year since the last minor release (0.6.x, 1.5.y)
>> in that line" within this document [1].
>> 
>> If I read that now it seems like we're saying "if we make a minor
>> release we're going to support that for up to a year" and so each time
>> we create a new minor line on a given major line it means we are
>> resetting the clock.
>> 
>> I do not believe we should give old major lines, such as 0.x, the
>> ability to drag on the community indefinitely as that reads.  I
>> believe it should be that we support a given major release line for up
>> to one year one after a new major release line is provided.
>> 
>> So would like to hear peoples thoughts on that.
>> 
>> If an 0.8 release is to occur the items called out are things which
>> impact licensing only (specifically the no longer allowed cat-x json
>> library). I would be far more comfortable with 0.7.3 release which
>> would be fixing whatever bugs have been addressed.  That avoids the
>> concern I noted above for this case though i'd still like us to
>> clarify that language/intent anyway.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Joe
>> 
>> On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 3:21 PM, Brandon DeVries <b...@jhu.edu> wrote:
>>> Team,
>>> 
>>> The only unresolved tickets against the 0.8.0 release[1] are for the
>>> removal of code...  With that in mind, does anyone object to trying to
>> push
>>> for this (possibly final) 0.x release?
>>> 
>>> Brandon
>>> 
>>> [1]
>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%
>> 3D%20NIFI%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%200.8.0%20AND%20resolution%20%3D%
>> 20Unresolved%20ORDER%20BY%20due%20ASC%2C%20priority%
>> 20DESC%2C%20created%20ASC
>> 

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