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Lars Hofhansl commented on HBASE-11642:
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Is Python 2.x vs 3.x, Linux Kernel 2.x vs 3.x, Java 7 vs 8, etc, necessarily a
bad thing? The older main versions exist because folks cannot (or do not want
to) upgrade.
I hear the "let's force an upgrade by unsupporting version X" from
non-practicing entities a lot - i.e. those that actually do not use the product
themselves. (not saying that's the case with you :) )
As chance has it my organization is upgrading to 0.98 as we speak so it's not
an issue for me, but I imagine if we didn't, we certainly wouldn't want to be a
situation where we're on our own with a heavy investment in a certain
infrastructure (in terms of H/W, operations, customer commitments, etc), and
only a destructive one-way upgrade path that includes downtime. (We're doing
this now before the *big* rollout in order to avoid these head-aches for a bit.)
> EOL 0.96
> --------
>
> Key: HBASE-11642
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-11642
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Task
> Reporter: stack
> Assignee: stack
>
> Do the work to EOL 0.96.
> + No more patches on 0.96
> + Remove 0.96 from downloads.
> + If user has issue with 0.96 and needs fix, fix it in 0.98 and have the user
> upgrade to get the fix.
> + Write email to user list stating 0.96 has been EOL'd September 1st? And add
> notice to refguide.
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