[DISCUSS] EOL Hadoop branch-2.8

The last Hadoop 2.8.x release, 2.8.5, was GA on September 15th 2018. It's been 17 months since the release and the community by and large have moved up to 2.9/2.10/3.x. With Hadoop 3.3.0 over the horizon, is it time to start the EOL discussion and reduce the number of active branches?

Apache Hadoop qbt Report: trunk+JDK8 on Linux/x86

For more details, see https://builds.apache.org/job/hadoop-qbt-trunk-java8-linux-x86/1413/ [Feb 16, 2020 6:45:03 AM] (surendralilhore) HDFS-15135. EC : ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in -1 overall The following subsystems voted -1: asflicense findbugs pathlen unit xml The following

Apache Hadoop qbt Report: branch2.10+JDK7 on Linux/x86

For more details, see https://builds.apache.org/job/hadoop-qbt-branch-2.10-java7-linux-x86/599/ No changes -1 overall The following subsystems voted -1: asflicense findbugs hadolint pathlen unit xml The following subsystems voted -1 but were configured to be filtered/ignored: cc