I am removing these through https://github.com/apache/skywalking-website/pull/462
You could submit a pull request to put this notice to the right place you recommend. We could discuss from there. On 2022/06/09 15:21:18 Yihao Chen wrote: > Hi team, > > I support the decision, it will lower the cognitive load especially for new > users in the long term. > > I think we could still add a short notice in the Downloads page regarding the > separation though, because a large number of out-dated blogs/ docs on public > websites still refers to < 8.7.0 therefore instructing users to look for the > agent in the OAP release. > > Kind regards, > Yihao Chen (Superskyyy) > > From: Sheng Wu<mailto:[email protected]> > Sent: June 9, 2022 11:11 AM > To: dev<mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: [NOTIFICATION] Plan to remove OAP v8.7.0 and previous releases from > download and doc page > > Hi, > > Since SkyWalking OAP is fully moving on 9.x iteration, all 8.x > releases would be removed as recommended versions on the website in > 2022, like the tradition we did for all previous major version > upgrading. > Before that, I am going to remove 8.7.0 and previous releases from the > download page as well as not hosting these versions' docs anymore. > v8.7.0 was the last version separating ES7 and ES8 supports, which > always brought a lot of confusion from end users. > Also, considering it was released on Aug. 2021, which is nearly one year ago, > Another good point to do this is, 8.8.0 is the first version Java > agent that got separated from the main repository. So, after removing, > we could remove `Include doc of Java agent(<= 8.7.0)` from the main > repo's doc page. > > Of course, no version and doc would be removed permanently, they are > all in GitHub's tagged versions, as well as in ASF's archive SVN, > https://archive.apache.org/dist/skywalking/. > > > > Sheng Wu 吴晟 > Twitter, wusheng1108 > >
