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Lars Hofhansl commented on HBASE-11642: --------------------------------------- Is Python 2.x vs 3.x, Linux Kernel 2.x vs 3.x, Java 7 vs 8, etc, necessarily a bad thing? The older main versions exist because folks cannot (or do not want to) upgrade. I hear the "let's force an upgrade by unsupporting version X" from non-practicing entities a lot - i.e. those that actually do not use the product themselves. (not saying that's the case with you :) ) As chance has it my organization is upgrading to 0.98 as we speak so it's not an issue for me, but I imagine if we didn't, we certainly wouldn't want to be a situation where we're on our own with a heavy investment in a certain infrastructure (in terms of H/W, operations, customer commitments, etc), and only a destructive one-way upgrade path that includes downtime. (We're doing this now before the *big* rollout in order to avoid these head-aches for a bit.) > EOL 0.96 > -------- > > Key: HBASE-11642 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-11642 > Project: HBase > Issue Type: Task > Reporter: stack > Assignee: stack > > Do the work to EOL 0.96. > + No more patches on 0.96 > + Remove 0.96 from downloads. > + If user has issue with 0.96 and needs fix, fix it in 0.98 and have the user > upgrade to get the fix. > + Write email to user list stating 0.96 has been EOL'd September 1st? And add > notice to refguide. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)