I don't think we need a major release to drop modules. Those modules will
just not be released. That fits with semantic versioning because the line
of versions stops.

On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 3:37 AM Gabor Szadovszky <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I agree with Fokko. It would be nice to drop these modules but only in the
> next major release.
>
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 11:57 AM Uwe L. Korn <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hello Fokko,
> >
> > I have put up a PR for the Scala update
> > https://github.com/apache/parquet-mr/pull/605. parquet-scrooge fails due
> > to a Thrift parsing error but parquet-scala succeeds with Scala 2.12 With
> > dropping scrooge, we could at least move this forward.
> >
> > Uwe
> >
> > > Am 29.01.2019 um 11:40 schrieb Nandor Kollar
> > <[email protected]>:
> > >
> > > Removing parquet-hive-* is a great idea, the code in Parquet is not
> > > maintained any more, it is just a burden there.
> > >
> > > As of parquet-pig, I'd prefer moving it to Pig (if Pig community
> accepts
> > it
> > > as it is) instead of dropping it or moving to a separate project. I
> know
> > > people who still use Pig with Parquet.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Nandor
> > >
> > >> On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 6:29 PM Ryan Blue <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Hi everyone,
> > >>
> > >> I’m working on the 1.10.1 build and I’ve noticed that we will have
> > several
> > >> modules that are not maintained or are very old. This includes all of
> > the
> > >> Hive modules that moved into Hive years ago and also modules like
> > >> parquet-scrooge and parquet-scala that are based on Scala 2.10 that
> has
> > >> been EOL for years.
> > >>
> > >> We also have 2 command-line utilities, parquet-tools and parquet-cli.
> > The
> > >> parquet-cli version is friendlier to use, but I’m clearly biased. In
> any
> > >> case, I don’t think we need to maintain both and it is confusing for
> > users
> > >> to have two modules that do the same thing.
> > >>
> > >> I propose we remove the following modules:
> > >>
> > >>   - parquet-hive-*
> > >>   - parquet-scrooge
> > >>   - parquet-scala
> > >>   - parquet-tools
> > >>   - parquet-hadoop-bundle (shaded deps)
> > >>   -
> > >>
> > >>   parquet-cascading (in favor of parquet-cascading3, if we keep it)
> > >>   There are also modules that I’m not sure about. Does anyone use
> these?
> > >>   -
> > >>
> > >>   parquet-thrift
> > >>   - parquet-pig
> > >>   - parquet-cascading3
> > >>
> > >> Pig hasn’t had an update (other than project-wide changes) since Oct
> > 2017.
> > >> I think it may be time to drop support in Pig and allow that to exist
> > as a
> > >> separate project if anyone is still interested in it.
> > >>
> > >> In the last few years, we’ve moved more to a model where processing
> > >> frameworks and engines maintain their own integration. Spark, Presto,
> > >> Iceberg, and Hive fall into this category. So I would prefer to drop
> Pig
> > >> and Cascading3. I’m fine keeping thrift if people think it is useful.
> > >>
> > >> Thoughts?
> > >>
> > >> rb
> > >> --
> > >> Ryan Blue
> > >> Software Engineer
> > >> Netflix
> > >>
> >
>


-- 
Ryan Blue
Software Engineer
Netflix

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