Thanks for the digging Sean! I agree to do a VOTE and send an announcement email to dev and user lists. The stable pointer was already moved to 2.4 so there shouldn't be any blockers to officially EOL the 2.3 line.
On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 4:25 PM Sean Busbey <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks! > > Our Peter was asking in Slack about how to find the announcement for EOL on > HBase 2.3 releases. I did some digging around and I think there's been a > miscommunication. > > The page header on our project's space on the ASF downloads page[1] > currently says 2.3 was EOL in October 2021. But none of the usual cleanup > has happened; namely 2.3.7 is still in our project download hosting and > listed on our download page. > > I’ve found this discussion of EOL 2.3 which we listed in our board report: > https://s.apache.org/i56se > > That discussion basically ended with "we need to have the stable pointer > updated to 2.4 first". After that discussion 2.3.7 was released. I can't > find any further discussion or a VOTE thread. > > Personally I think we ought to just do a quick VOTE to make it EOL and > clean things up. > > What do others think? > > [1]: https://downloads.apache.org/hbase/ >
