Re: [DISCUSS] End of life for Hive 1.x, 2.x, 3.x

When we were brainstorming about the future of the Hive 3 branch with Zoltan Haindrich, he mentioned this letter: https://lists.apache.org/thread/by9ppc2z8oqdzpqotzv5bs34yrxrd84l I think Sungwoo Park and his team makes a huge ef

Re: [DISCUSS] End of life for Hive 1.x, 2.x, 3.x

We maintain our own fork of Hive 3 because we are not always adding new commits to the tip of the branch. To backport a new patch, sometimes we have to add new commits between existing commits, update earlier commits, and so on. This makes it impractical to keep adding new patches only to the tip o

Re: [DISCUSS] End of life for Hive 1.x, 2.x, 3.x

Thanks everyone for sharing your thoughts. I am happy to see so many people involved in the discussion. I would say that the current 4.0.0-alpha-1 is better in many aspects than previous stable releases, although this might be a bit subjective. I am afraid that if we keep supporting older release