> Is it even relevant at all? The release of 2.3.1 dates back to January 2016. That's quite a long time and we cannot recommend to use 2.3.1 anymore mostly due to outdated and potentially vulnerable upstream dependencies Nutch relies on. So, in consequence we would need to advice all users of 2.3.1 to switch to use 1.x/1.15 immediately.
Also, there are 81 issues resolved in 2.4 - the work on 2.x still continued in 2016 and 2017, began to slow down in 2018 and almost entirely stopped this year with only a few commits related to maintenance issues. Would be somehow sad to leave all the work done addressing these 81 issues unreleased. Of course, if there is nobody which takes the time to test the release and vote for it because all thinks it isn't relevant: this would be a clear vote not to release and to announce the end of 2.x right now and to withdraw the 2.3.1 release packages. The code would be still accessible from the release archives and it will als remain in the repositories anyway. Best, Sebastian On 9/24/19 12:11 PM, BlackIce wrote: > Is it even relevant at all? > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 11:54 AM Sebastian Nagel <wastl.na...@googlemail.com > <mailto:wastl.na...@googlemail.com>> wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > A first candidate for the Nutch 2.4 release is available at: > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/nutch/2.4/ > > The release candidate is a zip and tar.gz archive of sources in: > https://github.com/apache/nutch/tree/release-2.4 > > In addition, a staged maven repository is available here: > https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachenutch-1016/ > > We addressed 81 issues: > https://s.apache.org/bFfL > > > Please vote on releasing this package as Apache Nutch 2.4. > The vote is open for the next 72 hours and passes if a majority of at > least three +1 Nutch PMC votes are cast. > > [ ] +1 Release this package as Apache Nutch 2.4. > [ ] -1 Do not release this package because ... > > > Cheers, > Sebastian > (On behalf of the Nutch PMC) > > > P.S. Here is my +1 > Unit tests pass and I've successfully run a small test crawl > using HBase 1.14.10 > > P.S. Note that the release of 2.4 is considered to be the last release > on the 2.x branch. Development on this branch has been retired > with no active committers working on it and as Nutch PMC we feel > unable to upkeep the support of the 2.x branch. More details will > be shared as soon as 2.4 is released. >
