Sorry 2.7.7 should be 2.7.8. On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 11:46 AM Akira Ajisaka <aajis...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 > >
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