We had a recent non-binding veto in a release candidate vote (for 1.1.13) due to, I think, legitimate confusion over the status of the hbase-native-client subdirectory in our source tree. This is a self contained native code connector that is not hooked up to our Maven build. Therefore there isn't an automated way for our RMs to produce binary convenience artifacts that include this component. I'm not even sure it is buildable or functional at this point. It has not been updated for two years.
Because it is self contained, and in what appears to be an unmaintained state, I would like to remove it for the 1.4.0 release, therefore from branch-1.4 and up. Dropping it doesn't represent a compatibility problem in my view as it isn't hooked up to the build and seems unlikely anyone is depending on it given we haven't had a single change nor issue reported against it for two years. If someone does care about this, it can be resurrected at any time as an independent GitHub based project. -- Best regards, Andrew Words like orphans lost among the crosstalk, meaning torn from truth's decrepit hands - A23, Crosstalk
