+1 Thanks for encouraging votes from non-committers. I think having three major versions simultaneously encourages fragmentation that this project does not need.
-Ryan On May 6, 2014, at 11:47 AM, Sean Busbey <[email protected]> wrote: > This is friendly reminder to everyone that this vote closes today at 20:40 > UTC (about 5 hours from now). > > Please vote, especially if you are not a committer / PMC member. Ending > support for a major branch is something I'd really like as much community > input on as possible. > > For reference, the vote right now is: +3, -2 > > +1: David M., Josh E., Bill H. > -1: Christopher T., Keith T. > > I have seen statements about support or disagreement with different > actions, but these are the only clearly stated votes. > > > On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Sean Busbey <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Accumulo Folks, >> >> I would like to declare end of life for the 1.4 branch of development. >> It's been active for a little over two years and the release of 1.6.0 means >> we now have three active releases. >> >> Declaring end of life would mean >> >> * Posting an ANNOUNCE message to the user list >> * No longer accepting issue fix version targets for future 1.4 releases >> * Removing fix version targets of 1.4.x for existing open issues >> * The end of having a long lived 1.4 related branch in git >> * Removing direct references to 1.4.x releases on our download page >> * No longer linking to the 1.4 related documentation from the main >> navigation area >> >> Our issue tracker shows that candidate version 1.4.6 currently has: >> >> * 9 closed issues, none of which are blockers or critical. >> * 1 issue in patch available status, marked critical >> * 18 open issues with a target fix version of 1.4.6, four of which are >> marked critical. >> >> Because there is existing work, but not yet enough to warrant a release, I >> propose >> that on successful passing of this vote we create a "1.4.6-eol" tag with >> the then >> current state of the development branch. >> >> Please vote >> >> [ ] +1 I am in favor of announcing End of Life according to the above plan >> [ ] +-0 I am indifferent >> [ ] -1 I am opposed to the above End of Life plan because... >> >> I'm treating this like a release vote. Thus, it will be handled with >> Majority Approval: >> to pass it will need 3 committers to +1 and more committers voting +1 than >> -1. >> >> Vote will remain open for 72 hours, until Tuesday, May 6 2014, 20:40 UTC >> >> -- >> Sean >> > > > > -- > Sean
