I think the current release is good enough to use Spark 1.6.x. For the future release, it would be better to focus on 2.x only.
And older versions than 1.6, fully agreed. we should do it, personally. On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 10:16 AM, Jeff Zhang <zjf...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This might be a little risky. But it depends on how many people still use > spark 1.6 > But at least I would suggest to disable support any spark before 1.6. > There's many legacy code in zeppelin to support very old versions of spark > (e.g. 1.5, 1.4) > Actually we don't have travis job for any spark before 1.6, so we don't > know whether these legacy code still works. Maintain these legacy code is a > extra effort for community. so I would suggest to disable support on spark > before 1.6 at least. > > > Jongyoul Lee <jongy...@gmail.com>于2018年7月17日周二 上午9:10写道： > >> Hi, >> >> Today, I found that Apache Spark 1.6.3 distribution was removed from >> Apache CDN. We can get the link for 1.6.3 from Apache Spark, but it's only >> available to be download from Apache archive. I'm not sure how many ppl >> still use Spark 1.6.3 in Apache Zeppelin, but in my opinion, it means Spark >> 1.6.3 is not active anymore. >> >> From now, AFAIK, about supporting versions of Apache Spark, we have >> followed for Spark's policy. >> >> I suggest that we also remove Spark 1.6.3 from the officially supported >> version for the next Apache Zeppelin major release - 0.9.0 or 1.0.0. If we >> could focus on support on Spark 2.x only, we could make SparkInterpreter >> more concretely. >> >> WDYT? >> >> Best regards, >> JL >> >> -- >> 이종열, Jongyoul Lee, 李宗烈 >> http://madeng.net >> > -- 이종열, Jongyoul Lee, 李宗烈 http://madeng.net
