Having a formal policy on maintaining HBase support would provide a peace of mind to users.
* When do we drop support for minor HBase releases ? * As soon as they are EOL ? * Do we want to declare a grace period ? * What happens if a new HBase patch release is incompatible ? * We may want to keep the old compatibility module in the code if we have already released a version where it is supported * Do we drop support for HBase releases in Phoenix patch versions ? (provided we plan to release them in the future) * So far we didn't make an issue of dropping support for older HBase patch releases in master, as we didn't have a release that supports them anyway. Dropping Hbase 1.3 support would allow for a major simplification in the compat code. Dropping the rest of the versions wouldn't buy us much (apart from CI resource usage) Istvan On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 5:57 AM Viraj Jasani <vjas...@apache.org> wrote: > +1(non-binding) to EOLing the support for HBase 1.3 and 2.1 at least since > both were EOLed last year (1.4 and 2.2 can also be dropped). > > Moreover, b/ 2.4.0 and 2.4.1 we have some compat issue in IA.Private class > (we need some utility from HStore which is refactored in 2.4.1), hence we > will need new compat module to support 2.4.1+ releases in Phoenix 5.2.0+ > releases mostly. > > > On Fri, 29 Jan 2021 at 6:54 AM, Geoffrey Jacoby <gjac...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > +1. Following 4.16 and 5.1's releases I'd suggest EOLing support for > HBase > > 1.3, 1.4, 2.1 and 2.2, I believe all of which have been EOLed by the > HBase > > community. All of those versions also require special compatibility lib > > support currently. > > > > Geoffrey > > > > On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 6:35 PM Xinyi Yan <yanxi...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm thinking to drop the number of supported HBase versions for future > > > releases. For example, the HBase 1.3 was EOM'd in August 2020, do we > > still > > > consider support it for 4.17.0? Similarly, our current master branch > also > > > supports EOM'd HBase version. If phoenix users already upgraded their > > > HBase, we should not spend time supporting these old versions IMO. > > > > > > I think we should do it after 4.16.0 and 5.1.0, thoughts? > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Xinyi > > > > > > -- *István Tóth* | Staff Software Engineer st...@cloudera.com <https://www.cloudera.com> [image: Cloudera] <https://www.cloudera.com/> [image: Cloudera on Twitter] <https://twitter.com/cloudera> [image: Cloudera on Facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/cloudera> [image: Cloudera on LinkedIn] <https://www.linkedin.com/company/cloudera> <https://www.cloudera.com/> ------------------------------
