+1 for dropping Hadoop1 support @greg There is quite some complexity in the build setup and release scripts and testing to support Hadoop 1. Also, we have to prepare to add support for Hadoop 3, and then supporting in addition Hadoop 1 seems very tough.
Stephan On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 5:04 PM, Greg Hogan <c...@greghogan.com> wrote: > Hi Robert, > > What are the benefits to Flink for dropping Hadoop 1 support? Is there > significant code cleanup or would we simply be publishing one less set of > artifacts? > > Greg > > On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 10:47 AM, Robert Metzger <rmetz...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > The Apache Hadoop community has recently released the first alpha version > > for Hadoop 3.0.0, while we are still supporting Hadoop 1. I think its > time > > to finally drop Hadoop 1 support in Flink. > > > > The last minor Hadoop 1 release was in 27 June, 2014. > > Apache Spark dropped Hadoop 1 support with their 2.0 release in July > 2016. > > Hadoop 2.2 was first released in October 2013, so there was enough time > > for users to upgrade. > > > > I added also the user@ list to the discussion to get opinions about this > > from there as well. > > > > Let me know what you think about this! > > > > > > Regards, > > Robert > > >
