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Subject: Re: [VOTE] end of life plan for 1.4 branch
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+1

I'm fine with completely removing everything, but the addition of some 
page for old docs/releases wouldn't change my vote.

On 5/3/14, 4:41 PM, Sean Busbey wrote:
> Accumulo Folks,
>
> I would like to declare end of life for the 1.4 branch of development. It's
> been active for a little over two years and the release of 1.6.0 means we
> now have three active releases.
>
> Declaring end of life would mean
>
> * Posting an ANNOUNCE message to the user list
> * No longer accepting issue fix version targets for future 1.4 releases
> * Removing fix version targets of 1.4.x for existing open issues
> * The end of having a long lived 1.4 related branch in git
> * Removing direct references to 1.4.x releases on our download page
> * No longer linking to the 1.4 related documentation from the main
> navigation area
>
> Our issue tracker shows that candidate version 1.4.6 currently has:
>
> * 9 closed issues, none of which are blockers or critical.
> * 1 issue in patch available status, marked critical
> * 18 open issues with a target fix version of 1.4.6, four of which are
> marked critical.
>
> Because there is existing work, but not yet enough to warrant a release, I
> propose
> that on successful passing of this vote we create a "1.4.6-eol" tag with
> the then
> current state of the development branch.
>
> Please vote
>
> [ ] +1 I am in favor of announcing End of Life according to the above plan
> [ ] +-0 I am indifferent
> [ ] -1 I am opposed to the above End of Life plan because...
>
> I'm treating this like a release vote. Thus, it will be handled with
> Majority Approval:
> to pass it will need 3 committers to +1 and more committers voting +1 than
> -1.
>
> Vote will remain open for 72 hours, until Tuesday, May 6 2014, 20:40 UTC
>