Hi, Given the EOL for 2.5.x has been discussed 10 months ago[1]. I am +1 on shorten the period. One question, is 2.6.x completely compatible to 2.5.x?
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/d9384d891977994d39603d06cff6ba9ba3c9adc972d4733e4a9f987c@%3Cdev.dubbo.apache.org%3E On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 10:58 AM yuhang xiu <[email protected]> wrote: > > +1 > > Ian Luo <[email protected]> 于2019年3月8日周五 上午10:42写道： > > > +1 to announce EOL of 2.5.x as soon as possible. > > > > On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 6:04 PM jun liu <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > IMO, we should consider announce the end of life in the near future, > > > > say 1 year, and only support critical bug fix or security fix, > > > > > > In fact, 2.5.x has been out of the community’s daily maintenance for a > > > while. And I think few users are still staying on this branch, this can > > be > > > told from the PRs and issues reported as really few issues were related > > to > > > 2.5.x in the past 5-6 months. > > > > > > I think we should announce EOL plan ASAP and 3 months official buffer > > > period would be enough. > > > > > > Jun > > > > > > > On Mar 7, 2019, at 4:49 PM, Huxing Zhang <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I see someone send a pull request to 2.5.x branch[1]. > > > > My question is that is 2.5.x branch still being supported? > > > > IMO, we should consider announce the end of life in the near future, > > > > say 1 year, and only support critical bug fix or security fix, while > > > > that we should provide a migration guide for user to upgrade from > > > > 2.5.x to 2.6.x or 2.7.x. > > > > > > > > What do you think? > > > > > > > > [1] https://github.com/apache/incubator-dubbo/pull/3565 > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Best Regards！ > > > > Huxing > > > > > > > > -- Best Regards！ Huxing
