Yeah, the number of users running 2.1 was part of my concern, and if we're happy to maintain 4 actively supported branches, along with trunk, I think that's fine.
A 2.1.18 release with the few fixes committed in cassandra-2.1 will at least be an opportunity to get RPMs rolled up for users in all branches. I appreciate the feedback. -- Michael On 06/21/2017 12:01 AM, Jeff Jirsa wrote: > Site says: > > * Apache Cassandra 2.1 is supported until 4.0 release (date > TBD) with critical fixes only. > > Since we don't know when 4.0 goes out, we shouldn't be in a hurry to do > a final 2.1.18 cut. There's not much in that branch (a few 2i fixes, > some build fixes, a cqlsh fix, and a logging fix), so no reason to cut > it now, and certainly no reason to cut a "final" release now. Leave it > open, there's no real cost to having it open, and if a real critical bug > pops up between now and 4.0, the hundreds/thousands of people running > 2.1 in prod will appreciate a fix. > > - Jeff > > > > On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 8:20 PM, Michael Shuler <mich...@pbandjelly.org > <mailto:mich...@pbandjelly.org>> wrote: > > Sounds good to me - I'll work up a 2.2.10 artifact set tomorrow. > > Looking at our current branches and the EOL TBD dates on the download > page, I believe the 4.0 references for sunsetting branches was prior to > considering a 3.11.0 release with ongoing support for the branch. > > Should we also do a 2.1.18 release as a final cut and end commits to the > cassandra-2.1 branch? I'm sorry I hadn't thought about this sooner. > > Michael > > On 06/20/2017 09:11 PM, Nate McCall wrote: > > Since we have the others going out and we do have some bugfixes there. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org > <mailto:dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org > <mailto:dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org
