I'm convinced. This is enough deprecation notice for me.
On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 8:25 AM, Tim Armstrong <tarmstr...@cloudera.com.invalid> wrote: > I don't think we need to bump a major version to remove something that we > never claimed to support though. The docs are pretty clear: > > https://impala.apache.org/docs/build/html/topics/impala_allow_unsupported_formats.html > > "An obsolete query option from early work on support for file formats. Do > not use. Might be removed in the future." > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 10:16 PM, Jim Apple <jbap...@cloudera.com.invalid> > wrote: > >> As for the time zone case, I’d like to be careful about versioning. If we >> remove Avro, that seems like a breaking changedeserving of a major version >> bump. >> >> It might be worth taking a survey wider than dev@. User@ or the customers >> of Impala packagers might be good places to start. >> >> On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 5:10 PM Tim Armstrong >> <tarmstr...@cloudera.com.invalid> wrote: >> >> > For a few years now we've had write support for Sequence, Avro and >> > compressed text hidden behind a query option. We haven't really made any >> > progress on turning it into a supported feature, so I'm wondering if we >> > should remove the code and save some overhead of building, testing and >> code >> > maintenance. >> > >> > I know I've found it useful once or twice to generate test data but I >> don't >> > think this is enough to justify maintaining it. >> > >> > It seems like we should get it out of this in-between state - either >> delete >> > the code or get it to the point where it's supported and tested. If we >> > delete it, it's always possible for someone to resurrect it later. >> > >> > What do people think? >> > >> > - Tim >> > >>
