I've never understood the fixation of staying on 2.x versions of Hadoop.
The Apache Group folks who attend to Hadoop - there are only so many of
them and their time and attention have to be spread among both new
development and bug fixes in both branches. At some point, any effort
directed toward 2.x at all comes at the detriment of effort directed
toward 3.x. I started working with Hadoop in spring of 2018 and at that
point, it seemed that irrespective of where Cloudera and Hortonworks
were with their products - which I wasn't going to be using anyway - the
two branches functioned differently enough and 3.x was far enough along
in its lifetime that I would be far better off if I skipped right past 2.x.
Another factor in this decision was that past experience with Tomcat
(another Apache Group effort) demonstrated that their developers didn't
have much patience with folks who were working with old versions of
Tomcat; they'd even backed out of one minor branch altogether and would
actually stand down from helping you with your problems with it if
that's what you were insisting on using.
On 7/25/19 9:07 AM, Wei-Chiu Chuang wrote:
My bad -- Didn't realize I was looking at the old Hadoop page.
Here's the correct list of releases.
https://hadoop.apache.org/releases.html
On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 12:49 AM ??????(Duo Zhang) <palomino...@gmail.com
<mailto:palomino...@gmail.com>> wrote:
IIRC we have a 2.8.5 release?
On the download page:
2.8.5 2018 Sep 15
Wei-Chiu Chuang <weic...@apache.org <mailto:weic...@apache.org>>
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> The last 2.8 release (2.8.4) was made in the last May, more than
a year
> ago. https://hadoop.apache.org/old/releases.html
>
> How do folks feel about the fate of branch-2.8? During the last
community
> meetup in June, it sounds like most users are still on 2.8 or
even 2.7, so
> I don't think we want to abandon 2.8 just yet.
>
> I would personally want to urge folks to move up to 3.x, so I
can stop
> cherrypicking stuff all the way down into 2.8. But it's not up
to me along
> to decide :)
>
> How do people feel about having another 2.8 release or two? I am
not saying
> I want to drive it, but I want to raise the awareness that folks
are still
> on 2.8 and there's not been an update for over a year.
>
> Thoughts?
>
