[DISCUSS] branch-1

2015-05-08 Thread Allen Wittenauer
May we declare this branch dead and just close bugs (but not necessarily concepts, ideas, etc) with won’t fix? I don’t think anyone has any intention of working on the 1.3 release, especially given that 1.2.1 was Aug 2013 …. I guess we need a PMC member to declare a

Re: [DISCUSS] branch-1

2015-05-08 Thread Karthik Kambatla
I would be -1 to declaring the branch dead just yet. There have been 7 commits to that branch this year. I know this isn't comparable to trunk or branch-2, but it is not negligible either. I propose we come up with a policy for deprecating past major release branches. May be, something along the

Re: [DISCUSS] branch-1

2015-05-08 Thread Sandy Ryza
+1 to auto-closing branch-1 issues. -Sandy On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Karthik Kambatla ka...@cloudera.com wrote: Closing out the JIRAs as Auto Closed or Closed due to Inactivity seems reasonable to me. For branch-1, we can be more aggressive. We should probably do the same less

Re: [DISCUSS] branch-1

2015-05-08 Thread Karthik Kambatla
Closing out the JIRAs as Auto Closed or Closed due to Inactivity seems reasonable to me. For branch-1, we can be more aggressive. We should probably do the same less aggressively for other branches too. On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Arun C Murthy acmur...@apache.org wrote: +1 Arun On May

Re: [DISCUSS] branch-1

2015-05-08 Thread Chris Nauroth
I think it would be fine to auto-close most remaining branch-1 issues even if the branch is still formally considered alive. I don't expect us to create a new 1.x release unless a security vulnerability or critical bug forces it. Closing all non-critical issues would match with the reality that