We haven't generally had clear guarantees about what OS versions we're going to support. I ran into issues with https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-8508 where we couldn't run python 3 on centos 6.4, for example.
Would it be possible to explicitly state what OS versions we're not going to support in Impala 4.0? On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 12:05 PM Joe McDonnell <joemcdonn...@cloudera.com> wrote: > Given the positive feedback, I will begin moving forward on the proposed > plan. I will start a new thread to discuss the Impala 3.4 release, and we > can start collecting/discussing the breaking changes that we want for > Impala 4.0. > > Feedback about the plan is still welcome on this thread. Alternatively, any > concerns can be raised in a new thread here on dev@. > > Thanks, > Joe > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 9:06 AM Laszlo Gaal <laszlo.g...@cloudera.com> > wrote: > > > +1 > > > > I'd also add that bumping the major version of Impala opens the window > > for introducing breaking changes. > > > > I don't intend to hijack this mail thread for that purpose, > > but I'd like to suggest compiling such a list in the context of the > version > > bump. > > > > Thanks, > > > > - LaszloG > > > > On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 6:48 PM Anurag Mantripragada < > anu...@cloudera.com> > > wrote: > > > > > This makes sense. > > > +1 > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 9:03 AM Andrew Sherman <asher...@cloudera.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > +1 > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 8:28 AM Sahil Takiar <takiar.sa...@gmail.com > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > +1 makes sense to me. > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 4:55 PM Tim Armstrong < > > tarmstr...@cloudera.com > > > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > I think this proposal make sense - we've done well in enabling > > > parallel > > > > > > development for different Hive versions so far, but it is a > burden. > > > > E.g. > > > > > we > > > > > > still don't have precommit tests for Hive 3+ (I like that name) > > and I > > > > > don't > > > > > > know that we want to go about making the suite of precommit tests > > > even > > > > > > larger. > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 4:29 PM Joe McDonnell < > > > > joemcdonn...@cloudera.com > > > > > > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > I wanted to start a conversation around moving to develop > against > > > > Hive > > > > > 3+ > > > > > > > by default. (I describe this as Hive 3+ because it is close to > > Hive > > > > > > master, > > > > > > > which is well beyond any released Hive 3.) There has been > > > > considerable > > > > > > > development effort towards implementing features integrating > > Impala > > > > > with > > > > > > > Hive 3+ and Hive ACID. This is currently developed under the > > > > > > > USE_CDP_HIVE=true configuration while regular development has > > > > continued > > > > > > > with Hive 2. The Hive 3+ development is now stable enough to be > > > used > > > > > for > > > > > > > regular development. It would be nice to reduce our test and > > > > > > compatibility > > > > > > > matrix and have a unified development environment. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Changing the major version of Hive is a breaking change, so it > > > would > > > > > > > require an Impala 4.x code line. I have a specific proposal, > but > > > this > > > > > is > > > > > > > mainly a frame for getting the discussion going. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I propose that we release Impala 3.4.0 and then update master > to > > > 4.0 > > > > > and > > > > > > > allow breaking changes until the Impala 4.0 release. The main > > > > breaking > > > > > > > change would be to set USE_CDP_HIVE=true, enabling Hive 3+ > > > > development > > > > > by > > > > > > > default. The Hive 2 configuration would be removed over time. > > Other > > > > > > > breaking changes can be proposed and voted on. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > If there are developers interested in maintaining a 3.x branch, > > we > > > > can > > > > > > > create this branch and add appropriate support to any > > > infrastructure > > > > > > (e.g. > > > > > > > bin/push_to_asf.py) to allow that. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thoughts? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Joe McDonnell > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > Sahil Takiar > > > > > Software Engineer > > > > > takiar.sa...@gmail.com | (510) 673-0309 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
