Yeah, agreed. I am very supportive, as well. Thanks for taking the time to put this together, David.
-Mark > On Dec 7, 2022, at 4:07 AM, Pierre Villard <pierre.villard...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Thanks for putting this together David. This is an excellent writeup and > it's great to have a release where we focus on tech debt as well as making > sure we stay up to date with our dependencies and what we support. This is > a great opportunity for us to clean a lot of things in our code and I can't > wait for us to get started with this. I'm definitely a +1 to have a formal > vote on this proposal. > > Thanks, > Pierre > > Le mar. 6 déc. 2022 à 23:50, Joe Witt <joe.w...@gmail.com> a écrit : > >> David, All, >> >> This is an excellent writeup/good framing. I am supportive of this >> as-is since it is achievable and lays out a clear path. We can make >> milestone releases of NiFi 2.0.0 along the way until we achieve all >> the stated goals. I assume migration bits will be the long pole and >> once we have them sorted we can kick out a 2.0.0. We already have a >> version guide that governs how long we'd keep 1.x maintained though >> the phase out is pretty natural as we move main to a 2.0.0 basis >> anyway. >> >> Not to confuse this thread but it makes me think we could do a similar >> framing for a NiFi 3.0 which lays out a potentially new approach to >> NiFi decoupling the web/interface from the runtime/operations and one >> which is more fundamentally K8S based. But we can cross that bridge a >> bit later. Does seem more and more like folks in the community would >> like to know more about the potential directions we can go. >> >> Thanks! >> Joe >> >> On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 1:53 PM David Handermann >> <exceptionfact...@apache.org> wrote: >>> >>> Team, >>> >>> With the release of NiFi 1.19.0 deprecating support for Java 8, the end >> of >>> the year provides a good opportunity for finalizing general release goals >>> for NiFi 2.0. >>> >>> Based on previous discussions from July 2021 [1] and June 2022 [2], there >>> seems to be general agreement with focusing a NiFi 2.0 release on >> reducing >>> technical debt while providing a straightforward upgrade path for current >>> deployments. >>> >>> I have updated the NiFi 2.0 Proposed Release Goals [3] to reflect more >>> recent progress in several areas. I also linked the Deprecated Components >>> and Features [4] page outlining the current state of deprecated >>> capabilities. >>> >>> The most recent update to the Proposed Release Goals outlines >> implementing >>> migration tooling to make the upgrade process as easy as possible. The >>> addition of dedicated deprecation logging in NiFi 1.18.0 makes it easier >> to >>> warn of breaking changes, but the goal of migration tooling is to make it >>> easier to upgrade configurations. >>> >>> The Proposed Release Goals does not include any release timelines right >>> now, and we should anticipate supporting version 1 for a reasonable >> period >>> of time. As more and more libraries deprecate and drop support for Java >> 8, >>> it will become increasingly difficult to maintain a support branch, which >>> is one of the main drivers behind a NiFi 2.0 release that drops support >> for >>> Java 8. >>> >>> The general development strategy should involve transitioning the main >>> branch to a 2.0.0-SNAPSHOT version so new features and fixes will be >>> targeted to the new version. Migration tooling will need to be >> implemented >>> on a version 1 support branch, and fixes can be backported where >> possible, >>> in preparation for subsequent version 1 releases. >>> >>> With that background, I would like to move to a formal vote soon, >> changing >>> the Proposed Release Goals document to Planned Release Goals. Please >> weigh >>> the general goals highlighted, and if there are no major roadblocks >>> identified, I will follow up soon with a vote thread. >>> >>> Regards, >>> David Handermann >>> >>> [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/yj8scrdbx3pdo7990123mc03q24rn1m7 >>> [2] https://lists.apache.org/thread/mm1xf3b9nvrcgytb92oy3swvvc45fl34 >>> [3] >>> >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NIFI/NiFi+2.0+Proposed+Release+Goals >>> [4] >>> >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NIFI/Deprecated+Components+and+Features >>
