Maybe Hadoop will benefit from adopting a similar release and support strategy as Java? I.e. designate some releases as LTS and support them for 2 (?) years (it seems that 2.7.x branch was de-facto LTS), other non-LTS releases will be supported for 6 months (or until next release). This should allow to reduce maintenance cost of non-LTS release and provide conservative users desired stability by allowing them to wait for new LTS release and upgrading to it.
On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 1:26 AM Rupert Mazzucco <[email protected]> wrote: > After recently jumping from 2.7.7 to 2.10 without issue myself, I vote for > keeping only the 2.10 line. > It would seem all other 2.x branches can upgrade to a 2.10.x easily if > they feel like upgrading at all, > unlike a jump to 3.x, which may require more planning. > > I also vote for having only one main 3.x branch. Why are there 3.1.x and > 3.2.x seemingly competing, > and now 3.3.x? For a community that does not have the resources to manage > multiple release lines, > you guys sure like to multiply release lines a lot. > > Cheers > Rupert > > Am Mi., 4. März 2020 um 19:40 Uhr schrieb Wei-Chiu Chuang > <[email protected]>: > >> Forwarding the discussion thread from the dev mailing lists to the user >> mailing lists. >> >> I'd like to get an idea of how many users are still on Hadoop 2.9. >> Please share your thoughts. >> >> On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 6:30 PM Sree Vaddi <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> +1 >>> >>> Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android >>> >>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 5:12 PM, Wei-Chiu Chuang<[email protected]> >>> wrote: Hi, >>> >>> Following the discussion to end branch-2.8, I want to start a discussion >>> around what's next with branch-2.9. I am hesitant to use the word "end of >>> life" but consider these facts: >>> >>> * 2.9.0 was released Dec 17, 2017. >>> * 2.9.2, the last 2.9.x release, went out Nov 19 2018, which is more than >>> 15 months ago. >>> * no one seems to be interested in being the release manager for 2.9.3. >>> * Most if not all of the active Hadoop contributors are using Hadoop 2.10 >>> or Hadoop 3.x. >>> * We as a community do not have the cycle to manage multiple release >>> line, >>> especially since Hadoop 3.3.0 is coming out soon. >>> >>> It is perhaps the time to gradually reduce our footprint in Hadoop 2.x, >>> and >>> encourage people to upgrade to Hadoop 3.x >>> >>> Thoughts? >>> >>>
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