It feels like we're trying to maintain too many branches. Both HBase 0.98 and 1.1 have been EOLed. To ease the burden on devs, how about we stop maintaining the 4.x-HBase-0.98 and 4.x-HBase-1.1 branches? An RM can always step up if need be to do a patch release from the 4.14 branches.
Also, how about the 1.2 branch? If we kept the 4.x-cdh5.11 branch, do we need the 4.x-HBase-1.2 branch? It'd be good if this was decided prior to the biggish splittable system catalog work (PHOENIX-3534) and omid transaction integration (PHOENIX-3623). Thanks, James
