Thanks Eric for the comments - regarding your concerns, I feel the pros outweigh the cons. To me, the chances of patch releases on 2.10.x are much higher than a new 2.11 minor release. (There didn't seem to be many people outside of our company who expressed interest in getting new features to branch-2 prior to the 2.10.0 release.) Even now, a few weeks after 2.10.0 release, there's 29 patches that have gone into branch-2 and 9 in branch-2.10, so it's already diverged quite a bit.
In any case, we can always reverse this decision if we really need to, by recreating branch-2. But this proposal would reduce a lot of confusion IMO. Jonathan Hung On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 11:41 AM epa...@apache.org <epa...@apache.org> wrote: > Thanks Jonathan for opening the discussion. > > I am not in favor of this proposal. 2.10 was very recently released, and > moving to 2.10 will take some time for the community. It seems premature to > make a decision at this point that there will never be a need for a 2.11 > release. > > -Eric > > > On Thursday, November 14, 2019, 8:51:59 PM CST, Jonathan Hung < > jyhung2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > Given the release of 2.10.0, and the fact that it's intended to be a bridge > release to Hadoop 3.x [1], I'm proposing we make 2.10.x the last minor > release line in branch-2. Currently, the main issue is that there's many > fixes going into branch-2 (the theoretical 2.11.0) that's not going into > branch-2.10 (which will become 2.10.1), so the fixes in branch-2 will > likely never see the light of day unless they are backported to > branch-2.10. > > To do this, I propose we: > > - Delete branch-2.10 > - Rename branch-2 to branch-2.10 > - Set version in the new branch-2.10 to 2.10.1-SNAPSHOT > > This way we get all the current branch-2 fixes into the 2.10.x release > line. Then the commit chain will look like: trunk -> branch-3.2 -> > branch-3.1 -> branch-2.10 -> branch-2.9 -> branch-2.8 > > Thoughts? > > Jonathan Hung > > [1] https://www.mail-archive.com/yarn-dev@hadoop.apache.org/msg29479.html >
