Looking at the EOL policy wiki: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/HADOOP/EOL+%28End-of-life%29+Release+Branches
The Hadoop community can still elect to make security update for EOL'ed releases. I think the EOL is to give more clarity to downstream applications (such as HBase) the guidance of which Hadoop release lines are still active. Additionally, I don't think it is sustainable to maintain 6 concurrent release lines in this big project, which is why I wanted to start this discussion. Thoughts? On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 10:22 AM Sunil Govindan <sun...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Wei-Chiu > > Extremely sorry for the late reply here. > Cud u pls help to add more clarity on defining what will happen for > branch-2.8 when we call EOL. > Does this mean that, no more release coming out from this branch, or some > more additional guidelines? > > - Sunil > > > On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 11:47 PM Wei-Chiu Chuang > <weic...@cloudera.com.invalid> wrote: > > > This thread has been running for 7 days and no -1. > > > > Don't think we've established a formal EOL process, but to publicize the > > EOL, I am going to file a jira, update the wiki and post the announcement > > to general@ and user@ > > > > On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 1:40 PM Dinesh Chitlangia <dineshc....@gmail.com > > > > wrote: > > > > > Thanks Wei-Chiu for initiating this. > > > > > > +1 for 2.8 EOL. > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 10:48 PM Akira Ajisaka <aajis...@apache.org> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Thanks Wei-Chiu for starting the discussion, > > > > > > > > +1 for the EoL. > > > > > > > > -Akira > > > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 4:59 PM Ayush Saxena <ayush...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Thanx Wei-Chiu for initiating this > > > > > +1 for marking 2.8 EOL > > > > > > > > > > -Ayush > > > > > > > > > > > On 17-Feb-2020, at 11:14 PM, Wei-Chiu Chuang <weic...@apache.org > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > The last Hadoop 2.8.x release, 2.8.5, was GA on September 15th > > 2018. > > > > > > > > > > > > It's been 17 months since the release and the community by and > > large > > > > have > > > > > > moved up to 2.9/2.10/3.x. > > > > > > > > > > > > With Hadoop 3.3.0 over the horizon, is it time to start the EOL > > > > > discussion > > > > > > and reduce the number of active branches? > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: common-dev-unsubscr...@hadoop.apache.org > > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: common-dev-h...@hadoop.apache.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
