Thanks Steve for the additional information. Since there is no negative feedback for EoL 2.7.x, so I'm thinking we can stop releasing 2.7.7.
Any thoughts? Regards, Akira On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 8:25 PM Steve Loughran <ste...@hortonworks.com> wrote: > > > > > On 24 Jan 2019, at 10:14, Akira Ajisaka <aajis...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi folks, > > > > I thought it's time to release 2.7.8, however, I found that the JSON > > license, which is category X, is bundled in branch-2.7 and 2.8 [1][2]. > > > > To fix the license issue, we need to upgrade AWK SDK version and the > > upgrade requires the update of Jackson version. The Jackson upgrade is > > very incompatible and it caused many troubles in downstream projects > > [3]. However, the release must not contain any libraries licensed to > > category X, we need to make the incompatible change in branch-2.8. > > > > In branch-2.7, the upgrade is much more harder because we need to > > change the dependency from aws-sdk to aws-sdk-s3, this is also > > incompatible [4]. > > > > It is more than 3 years since 2.7.0 was released and the maintenance > > period is the longest in the history of Apache Hadoop, so I'm > > thinking we need to decide when to stop the maintenance work. Probably > > there are 3 options to handle this problem: > > > > 1) EoL 2.7.x. > > 2) Release 2.7.8 without AWS SDK from binary tarball. (problem about POMs > > open) > > + and declare this the last; warn people that if they want the AWS SDK then > they need to add it. > > > 3) Upgrade AWS SDK version and release 2.7.8. (incompatible change) > > > > What do you think? > > > > [1]: https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#json > > [2]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-16055 > > [3]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-12705 > > [4]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-12269 > > > > P.S. Thanks Steve Loughran for your detailed information about AWS SDK > > and Jackson updates. > > let's just say its trouble -but that I don't want a transitive and optional > module to be dictating that jackson version applications like HBase need to > be recompiled for > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: common-dev-unsubscr...@hadoop.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: common-dev-h...@hadoop.apache.org
