Hi folks! The Apache HBase 2.1.z release line started in July 2018. It has had a total of 10 releases, the last of which was mid-February of this year.
In the end of January we made 2.2.3+ our "stable" release pointer. That effectively says that as a community we believe everyone on an earlier release should upgrade to that as a minimum. Ideally that should mean no new folks coming in will start adopting HBase 2.1. I think we should EOM branch-2.1. It will reduce our maintenance work as a project and provide an additional indicator to downstream folks that they should be running HBase 2.2. There are a few changes sitting in git since the last release and we're about due for one. What do folks think about HBase 2.1.10 being the last of the 2.1.z releases?
