In an effort to get more users off of our now unsupported 1.4 release, should we support upgrading directly to 1.6 without going through a 1.5 upgrade?
More directly for those on user@: would you be more likely to upgrade off of 1.4 if you could do so directly to 1.6? We have this working locally at Cloudera as a part of our CDH integration (we shipped 1.4 and we're planning to ship 1.6 next). We can get into implementation details on a jira if there's positive consensus, but the changes weren't very complicated. They're mostly * forward porting and consolidating some upgrade code * additions to the README for instructions Personally, I can see the both sides of the argument. On the plus side, anything to get more users off of 1.4 is a good thing. On the negative side, it means we have the 1.4 related upgrade code sitting in a supported code branch longer. Thoughts? -- Sean
