As there were no strong objections, we'll proceed with bumping the Hadoop version to 2.8.5 and removing the safeguards and the CI for any earlier versions. This will effectively make the Hadoop 2.8.5 the least supported version in Flink 1.15.
Best, D. On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 11:03 AM Till Rohrmann <trohrm...@apache.org> wrote: > If there are no users strongly objecting to dropping Hadoop support for < > 2.8, then I am +1 for this since otherwise we won't gain a lot as Xintong > said. > > Cheers, > Till > > On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 10:33 AM David Morávek <d...@apache.org> wrote: > > > Agreed, if we drop the CI for lower versions, there is actually no point > > of having safeguards as we can't really test for them. > > > > Maybe one more thought (it's more of a feeling), I feel that users > running > > really old Hadoop versions are usually slower to adopt (they most likely > > use what the current HDP / CDH version they use offers) and they are less > > likely to use Flink 1.15 any time soon, but I don't have any strong data > to > > support this. > > > > D. > > >
