+1 to maintaining 3 version lines as suggested by Jungtaek. On 2/13/18, 9:51 AM, "Arun Iyer on behalf of Arun Mahadevan" <ai...@hortonworks.com on behalf of ar...@apache.org> wrote:
+1 to maintain 3 version lines. I think the next focus should be 2.0.0 than 1.3.0. On 2/12/18, 11:40 PM, "Jungtaek Lim" <kabh...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hi devs, > >I've noticed that we are providing 4 different version lines (1.1.x, 1.0.x, >0.10.x, 0.9.x) in download page, and I expect we will add one more for >1.2.0. Moreover, we have one more develop version line (2.0.0 - master) >which most of development happens there. > >Recently we're releasing 3 version lines (1.0.6 / 1.1.2 / 1.2.0) >simultaneously and it took heavy effort to track all the RCs and verify all >of them. I guess release manager would take more overhead of releasing, and >it doesn't make sense for me if we continue maintaining all of them. > >Ideally I'd like to propose maintaining three version lines: 2.0.0 (next >major) / 1.3.0 (next minor - may not happen) / 1.2.1 (next bugfix) and >making others EOL (that respects semantic versioning and even other >projects tend to maintain only two version lines), but if someone feels too >aggressive, I propose at least we explicitly announce EOL to 0.x version >lines and get rid of any supports (downloads) for them. > >Would like to hear your opinion. > >Thanks, >Jungtaek Lim (HeartSaVioR)