Thank you for your feedback,

> IMHO, I'd love to see HDFS-13596 
> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-13596> fixed to make it possible 
> to rolling upgrade from Hadoop 2 to Hadoop 3.0

If HDFS-13596 is fixed in branch-3.1/3.2, will it be possible to
rolling upgrade from Hadoop 2 to Hadoop 3.1/3.2? If the answer is yes,
I'm thinking we can drop 3.0 and consider 3.1+ only.

Thanks,
Akira

On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 4:39 AM Ajay Kumar <ajay.ku...@cloudera.com> wrote:
>
> +1 for keeping no of active branches low, specially when it is not used 
> actively.
>
> On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 3:33 AM Steve Loughran <ste...@cloudera.com.invalid> 
> wrote:
>>
>> I've been intermittently backporting things to it, but like you say: not
>> getting much active use.
>>
>>
>>    1. I'd like to view the 3.1 branch as the main "ready to play with"
>>    Hadoop 3.x release, with 3.2 some new features.
>>    2. I'm planning on backporting some of the hadoop 3.x ABFS and S3A work
>>    to that 3.x release, and for S3A, some to 3.1.x (and indeed, maybe we
>>    should do the abfs connector, After all: it's not going to cause any
>>    regressions).
>>    3. The hadoop-aws changes will include HADOOP-16117, AWS SDK update -
>>    Sean Mackrory has been advocating "keep all active branches current with
>>    the AWS SDKs", and I've come to agree. The testing there didn't find any
>>    regressions, which was a pleasant surprise.
>>    4. For S3A, a big patch has just gone in, HADOOP-16085, which adds etag
>>    and version columns to the S3Guard DDB tables, and uses these at load 
>> time.
>>    Even if we don't backport that patch to the 3.1 line, it makes sense for
>>    all 3.1.x clients to be updating the DB with the relevant columns as they
>>    write it, so that on a mixed-client deployment, everyone keeps the table 
>> up
>>    to date
>>
>>
>> As usual, help welcome, especially with testing
>>
>> -steve
>>
>> On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 12:15 PM Wei-Chiu Chuang <weic...@apache.org> wrote:
>>
>> > Thanks for initiating the discussion, Akira.
>> >
>> > I've given similar thoughts on the possible EOL of Hadoop branch-3.0 line.
>> > IMHO, I'd love to see HDFS-13596
>> > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-13596> fixed to make it
>> > possible to rolling upgrade from Hadoop 2 to Hadoop 3.0, and then roll
>> > another maint. release before we declare EOL.
>> >
>> > But in all seriousness, with my Cloudera hat on, CDH will soon rebase onto
>> > branch-3.1 so it's unlikely Cloudera can sponsor another 3.0 maint release.
>> > With my Apache hat on, Apache is an all-volunteer organization and we all
>> > act individually, but I am just being realistic that there would not be
>> > much motivation to roll another release in the future.
>> >
>> > Thoughts?
>> >
>> > On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 8:31 AM Akira Ajisaka <aajis...@apache.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Hi folks,
>> > >
>> > > In branch-3.0, it is almost a year since 3.0.3 was released. Is there
>> > > any committer who wants to be a release manager of 3.0.4?
>> > >
>> > > If there are no users running Apache Hadoop 3.0.x in production, I'm
>> > > thinking we can stop maintaining branch-3.0. Please let me know there
>> > > are any users running Apache Hadoop 3.0.x.
>> > >
>> > > Any thoughts?
>> > >
>> > > -Akira
>> > >
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