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Subject: Re: [VOTE] end of life plan for 1.4 branch
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After watching other discussion, I'd add that I prefer the final tag 
doesn't include the '.6' portion as that would be confusing to me. This 
seems to be the consensus across other +1'ers, so I don't feel the need 
to change my vote, just stating what might otherwise not be obvious.

On 5/3/14, 10:35 PM, Josh Elser wrote:
> +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
>>