Nick: The plan sounds good. On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 9:24 AM, Nick Dimiduk <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello HBase Community! > > We have a small matter to discuss. > > HBase 1.2 has been formally marked as "stable" for the last couple months. > HBase 1.3.0rc0 is just around the corner. I think it's time to start a > conversation about retiring the 1.1 line. The volunteer bandwidth for > maintaining multiple branches is precious and as we spread ourselves more > thin, odds of decay increase. > > I propose discontinuing 1.1 with a single release following 1.3.1. That'll > give us one last chance to back port any bug fixes discovered in the > diligence we're putting into the new minor release. Given the current pace > of 1.3, I estimate this will happen in January or February of 2017. It's > not a lot of time for existing deployments to get around to upgrading, but > the upgrade path is trivial and 1.2 has been available for quite some > time. This will probably make our last release from this branch at 1.1.10 > or there abouts. > > Are there any objections or concerns with the above plan? Are there any > downstream communities who need our help moving onto 1.2? Please let us > know. > > Thanks, > Nick >
