+1 Agree. With Hadoop 3 becoming stable, we'd better encourage people to upgrade to Hadoop 3.x gradually.
Bests, Sammi On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 9:12 AM Wei-Chiu Chuang <weic...@apache.org> 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? >
