Nice, I think the PR is a good start, we should also add it docs in installation.rst or a new page which is linked by installation.rst
Regards, Kaxil On Wed, May 19, 2021, 10:31 Elad Kalif <elad...@apache.org> wrote: > I agree. We should make the version life cycle more noticeable. > started https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/15936 as a possible first > step > > On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 10:49 AM Xiaodong Deng <xdd...@apache.org> wrote: > >> Thanks, Jarek, for bringing up this. >> >> I do agree this is very important, and quite many users may be surprised >> by this even though the timeline has been decided & announced quite a long >> time ago. >> >> Yep, let's make this information more explicit. Among what you have >> nicely listed, the following two may be good starting point: >> - banner on our website & GitHub README >> - campaign through Social Media (maybe our Airflow official twitter >> account can rolle out a post then folks try to retweet? For LinkedIn, I >> don't think we have an official account, but everyone can post to their own >> network) >> >> Given it's just ~1 month to go, I suggest we prioritize this a little bit. >> >> >> XD >> >> On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 8:25 AM Jarek Potiuk <ja...@potiuk.com> wrote: >> >>> Hello Everyone, >>> >>> I think we have one more last effort and we should be more vocal, >>> explicit and active and make some campaign about the approaching Airflow >>> 1.10 End-Of-Life. >>> >>> Let me know what you think? >>> >>> More context: >>> >>> The EOL for Airflow 1.10 is approaching fast. It's a MONTH from now: *June >>> 17, 2021* (and I love it !). We've almost dropped all the baggage that >>> it brought, but we keep on seeing some people still installing Airflow >>> 1.10.12 (for example) as a "fresh" installation. >>> >>> I noticed that it's not really "prominently" displayed that 1.10 EOL is >>> in June. When I looked for this information it's kind of missing: >>> >>> * you won't find it in the README.md >>> https://github.com/apache/airflow/blob/master/README.md >>> * you won't find it in the main documentation page of >>> Airflow: >>> https://airflow.apache.org/docs/apache-airflow/stable/index.html >>> * you won't find it at the installation page: >>> https://airflow.apache.org/docs/apache-airflow/stable/installation.html >>> * you won't even explicitly find it in the upgrading page: >>> https://airflow.apache.org/docs/apache-airflow/stable/upgrading-to-2.html >>> >>> The message there is "We strongly recommend that all users upgrading to >>> Airflow 2.0, first upgrade to Airflow 1.10.15 and test their Airflow >>> deployment and only then upgrade to Airflow 2.0. The Airflow 1.10.x release >>> tree will be supported for six months from Airflow 2.0 release date." >>> (of course you can calculate that but it requires looking up when >>> Airflow 2.0 was released) >>> * you won't even find it in our Planning page for Airflow 2.0: >>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AIRFLOW/Airflow+2.0+-+Planning >>> >>> Should we make some more: >>> >>> * prominent changes to documentation/READMEs to explicitly state the >>> date? >>> * twitter/linkedin/social campaign announcing that the "end is near" ? >>> * slack campaign with pinned reminder messages ? >>> * banner on our website? >>> * should we use Airflow Summit as a vehicle /campaign/announcements ? >>> >>> J. >>> >>> -- >>> +48 660 796 129 >>> >>
