On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Sean Busbey <[email protected]> wrote:
> Resurrecting this thread to confirm our plans around upgrades to 2.0. > > Early on there was mention of requiring an upgrade to 1.x (from prior to > 1.0 release) before users can upgrade to 2.0. > > At the moment I'm looking at fixing a problem in the NamespaceUpgrade code > that is only in 2.0. Since the code isn't actually needed for 1.0+ > upgrades, I'd prefer to just rip it out. > > I didn't see any opposition to this idea, but I just want to confirm. To be > clear, the actual tooling to use this upgrade code has already been > removed, so it would take work to get the upgrade path going again. > Just to say that the first sentence in our upgrading chapter is: "You cannot skip major versions upgrading." [1] St.Ack 1. http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#upgrading
