Just to be clear I meant 'you' as the ZooKeeper project as a whole, but
maybe I have misunderstood this response:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-17612?focusedCommentId=17311792&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel#comment-17311792
On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 10:29 AM Enrico Olivelli <eolive...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Il Dom 30 Gen 2022, 17:51 Andrew Purtell <andrew.purt...@gmail.com> ha
> scritto:
>
> > Previously in various contexts - specifically, I am thinking of a Hadoop
> > JIRA where we once had a conversation on this topic, but I believe there
> > have been others - you have declared 3.5 a long term stable (LTS)
> release.
> >
> > A sudden EOL of an LTS is jarring and makes future promise of LTS
> > untrustworthy. What I would recommend for what it’s worth is a timetable
> to
> > EOL of 3.5 that is reasonably long, like one or two years, should you
> > decide to EOL it.
>
>
> I am sorry,
> I forgot about such conversation.
>
> Can you share some pointers ?
>
> No problem from my side as soon as there is someone who needs 3.5 and that
> is willing to help.
>
> Our codebase is pretty stable and we usually pay much attention to
> compatibility. So I am sure that 3.5 clients will be able to connect to new
> servers (and vice versa)
>
> I opened up this discussion to see how much interest is in the community,
> so from your response I understand that there is such interest.
>
> Thanks for answering
>
> Enrico
>
>
>
>
>
> >
> >
> > > On Jan 30, 2022, at 5:00 AM, Enrico Olivelli <eolive...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > > We are going to release 3.8.0.
> > > It is time to think about moving 3.5 to EOL.
> > >
> > > Key points:
> > > - we already have a few other "active" branches, 3.6 and 3.7
> > > - 3.5 still has "ant" files, and cherry picking libraries upgrade is
> > > awkward (you always have to create a separate patch)
> > > - moving to 3.6 is quite easy, so people should not be stuck if
> > > requested to upgrade to 3.6
> > >
> > > Thoughts ?
> > >
> > >
> > > Enrico
> >
>
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