Forwarding the discussion thread from the dev mailing lists to the user mailing lists.
I'd like to get an idea of how many users are still on Hadoop 2.9. Please share your thoughts. On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 6:30 PM Sree Vaddi <sree_at_ch...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote: > +1 > > Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 5:12 PM, Wei-Chiu Chuang<weic...@apache.org> > wrote: Hi, > > Following the discussion to end branch-2.8, I want to start a discussion > around what's next with branch-2.9. I am hesitant to use the word "end of > life" but consider these facts: > > * 2.9.0 was released Dec 17, 2017. > * 2.9.2, the last 2.9.x release, went out Nov 19 2018, which is more than > 15 months ago. > * no one seems to be interested in being the release manager for 2.9.3. > * Most if not all of the active Hadoop contributors are using Hadoop 2.10 > or Hadoop 3.x. > * We as a community do not have the cycle to manage multiple release line, > especially since Hadoop 3.3.0 is coming out soon. > > It is perhaps the time to gradually reduce our footprint in Hadoop 2.x, and > encourage people to upgrade to Hadoop 3.x > > Thoughts? > >
