+1 for spring cleaning (or I guess now technically summer) =)
On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 2:27 AM Quanlong Huang <huang_quanl...@126.com> wrote: > > +1, especially if this helps reducing your work on fixing the recent > broken/flaky tests. > > Thanks for your hard working on this wonderful product! > > > -- Quanlong > > > At 2018-06-20 04:12:38, "Jim Apple" <jbap...@cloudera.com.INVALID> wrote: > >I'm convinced. This is enough deprecation notice for me. > > > >On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 8:25 AM, Tim Armstrong > ><tarmstr...@cloudera.com.invalid> wrote: > >> I don't think we need to bump a major version to remove something that we > >> never claimed to support though. The docs are pretty clear: > >> > >> https://impala.apache.org/docs/build/html/topics/impala_allow_unsupported_formats.html > >> > >> "An obsolete query option from early work on support for file formats. Do > >> not use. Might be removed in the future." > >> > >> On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 10:16 PM, Jim Apple <jbap...@cloudera.com.invalid> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> As for the time zone case, I’d like to be careful about versioning. If we > >>> remove Avro, that seems like a breaking changedeserving of a major version > >>> bump. > >>> > >>> It might be worth taking a survey wider than dev@. User@ or the customers > >>> of Impala packagers might be good places to start. > >>> > >>> On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 5:10 PM Tim Armstrong > >>> <tarmstr...@cloudera.com.invalid> wrote: > >>> > >>> > For a few years now we've had write support for Sequence, Avro and > >>> > compressed text hidden behind a query option. We haven't really made any > >>> > progress on turning it into a supported feature, so I'm wondering if we > >>> > should remove the code and save some overhead of building, testing and > >>> code > >>> > maintenance. > >>> > > >>> > I know I've found it useful once or twice to generate test data but I > >>> don't > >>> > think this is enough to justify maintaining it. > >>> > > >>> > It seems like we should get it out of this in-between state - either > >>> delete > >>> > the code or get it to the point where it's supported and tested. If we > >>> > delete it, it's always possible for someone to resurrect it later. > >>> > > >>> > What do people think? > >>> > > >>> > - Tim > >>> > > >>>
