It makes sense what your saying, better to wrap things up in a tidy way. I got it last night, I'll give it a spin a bit later
Greetz On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 9:41 AM Sebastian Nagel <wastl.na...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Is it even relevant at all? > > The release of 2.3.1 dates back to January 2016. That's quite a long > time and we cannot recommend to use 2.3.1 anymore mostly due to outdated > and potentially vulnerable upstream dependencies Nutch relies on. > So, in consequence we would need to advice all users of 2.3.1 to switch > to use 1.x/1.15 immediately. > > Also, there are 81 issues resolved in 2.4 - the work on 2.x still continued > in 2016 and 2017, began to slow down in 2018 and almost entirely stopped > this year with only a few commits related to maintenance issues. Would be > somehow sad to leave all the work done addressing these 81 issues > unreleased. > > Of course, if there is nobody which takes the time to test the release and > vote for it because all thinks it isn't relevant: this would be a clear > vote > not to release and to announce the end of 2.x right now and to withdraw the > 2.3.1 release packages. The code would be still accessible from the release > archives and it will als remain in the repositories anyway. > > Best, > Sebastian > > > On 9/24/19 12:11 PM, BlackIce wrote: > > Is it even relevant at all? > > > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 11:54 AM Sebastian Nagel < > wastl.na...@googlemail.com > > <mailto:wastl.na...@googlemail.com>> wrote: > > > > Hi Folks, > > > > A first candidate for the Nutch 2.4 release is available at: > > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/nutch/2.4/ > > > > The release candidate is a zip and tar.gz archive of sources in: > > https://github.com/apache/nutch/tree/release-2.4 > > > > In addition, a staged maven repository is available here: > > > https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachenutch-1016/ > > > > We addressed 81 issues: > > https://s.apache.org/bFfL > > > > > > Please vote on releasing this package as Apache Nutch 2.4. > > The vote is open for the next 72 hours and passes if a majority of at > > least three +1 Nutch PMC votes are cast. > > > > [ ] +1 Release this package as Apache Nutch 2.4. > > [ ] -1 Do not release this package because ... > > > > > > Cheers, > > Sebastian > > (On behalf of the Nutch PMC) > > > > > > P.S. Here is my +1 > > Unit tests pass and I've successfully run a small test crawl > > using HBase 1.14.10 > > > > P.S. Note that the release of 2.4 is considered to be the last > release > > on the 2.x branch. Development on this branch has been retired > > with no active committers working on it and as Nutch PMC we feel > > unable to upkeep the support of the 2.x branch. More details > will > > be shared as soon as 2.4 is released. > > > >
