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From: ramkrishna vasudevan <ramkrishna.s.vasudevan@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 10:30:48 +0530
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Subject: Re: Resignation as RM for branch 0.98
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Thanks for your efforts Andrew. +1 on EOL of 0.98.

On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 10:27 PM, Josh Elser <elserj@apache.org> wrote:

> Big +1 to your efforts, Andrew, and an EOL on 0.98
>
>
> Ted Yu wrote:
>
>> Kudos to Andrew.
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 11:26 AM, Enis S=C3=B6ztutar<enis@apache.org>  wr=
ote:
>>
>> Thanks Andrew for carrying this.
>>>
>>> +1 on the EOL messaging.
>>>
>>> Enis
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 10:37 AM, Mikhail Antonov<olorinbant@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Yeah - thank you for all hard work and time investment on reviews,
>>>> cherry-picking, backporting and testing Andrew!
>>>>
>>>> +1 to retire 0.98.
>>>>
>>>> -Mikhail
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 10:28 AM, Sean Busbey<busbey@apache.org>  wrote=
:
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for all the hard work around 0.98 Andrew!
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm +1 on retiring 0.98, but I think we should solicit feedback from
>>>>> user@hbase before making a decision.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 6:51 PM, Andrew Purtell<apurtell@apache.org>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> HBasers,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Happy new year!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The 0.98 branch has had a great run at a fairly constant release
>>>>>>
>>>>> cadence,
>>>>
>>>>> producing 24 releases in all.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I served as the branch RM for 98 for all of that time, and now I fee=
l
>>>>>>
>>>>> the
>>>>
>>>>> time has come to move on to work with more recent code. Therefore
>>>>>>
>>>>> please
>>>>
>>>>> consider this my resignation as such (it's an informal position after
>>>>>>
>>>>> all
>>>>
>>>>> (smile)) from the role of branch 98 RM.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It will be up to the PMC to decide what to do about 98 going forward=
.
>>>>>>
>>>>> My
>>>>
>>>>> recommendation is to put out the message that 98 branch has been end
>>>>>>
>>>>> of
>>>
>>>> lifed (EOL). There is no reason someone else couldn't don the RM hat
>>>>>>
>>>>> and
>>>>
>>>>> put out an additional 98 release, for example, in order to deal with
>>>>>>
>>>>> a
>>>
>>>> critical fix for something we just can't abide shipping as the last
>>>>>>
>>>>> release
>>>>>
>>>>>> of anything. That person might even be me. However, without a
>>>>>>
>>>>> dedicated
>>>
>>>> shepard the management of the 98 branch is pretty difficult these
>>>>>>
>>>>> days.
>>>
>>>> It
>>>>>
>>>>>> requires Java 6 to build, which requires a hack to its security
>>>>>>
>>>>> classes
>>>
>>>> to
>>>>>
>>>>>> communicate with modern SSL servers like repository.apache.org, and
>>>>>> mandates Hadoop 1 compatibility, which can lead to tricky problems
>>>>>>
>>>>> found
>>>>
>>>>> only at release time. Backports are rarely clean. Assume 30 minutes
>>>>>>
>>>>> to
>>>
>>>> 2
>>>>
>>>>> hours work for each attempt at a backport, including time for tests
>>>>>>
>>>>> to
>>>
>>>> complete. Maintaining and releasing 98 branch will be a time
>>>>>>
>>>>> commitment.
>>>>
>>>>> FWIW. All that said if someone else would like to step up into the 98
>>>>>>
>>>>> RM
>>>>
>>>>> role, then we don't need to consider calling it EOL. However, as I've
>>>>>>
>>>>> said,
>>>>>
>>>>>> that is my humble recommendation to the PMC.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     - Andy
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If you are given a choice, you believe you have acted freely. -
>>>>>>
>>>>> Raymond
>>>
>>>> Teller (via Peter Watts)
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Michael Antonov
>>>>
>>>>
>>

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