+1 on EOL 1.2. I believe the notices in the announcement emails were adequate and by retiring branch-1.2 we are also moving forward to achieve our goal to reduce the number of active branches.
Thanks for your work Sean on HBase 1.2! On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 3:35 AM Sean Busbey <bus...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi folks! > > Back when our stable pointer first moved off of branch-1.2 releases I > said I'd do ~6 months of releases[1]. I'm preparing an RC for the > 1.2.12 release[2] and it's been ~6.5 months. > > I intend 1.2.12 to be the last release I manage off of branch-1.2. If > anyone else sees a reason to keep this release line going and is > willing to step in as RM please speak up. > > This is the template for the notice that's been in the ANNOUNCE emails > for 1.2.7 - 1.2.11: > > > All users of previous 1.2.z releases are encouraged to upgrade to either > > this release or the latest in our stable release line, which is currently > > X.Y.Z. Releases in the 1.2.z line are expected to stop in late spring > 2019. > > > Presuming no one wants to keep things going by the time a 1.2.12 VOTE > passes, I'll modify it to say the branch is EOL. About a month later > I'll do a dedicated EOL post to user@hbase, clean up project > references to the release line, and then remove the release from > dist.apache.org (it will remain along with all the others on > archive.apache.org). > > [1]: https://s.apache.org/UEPy > [2]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-22171 >
