On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 11:49 PM Jonathan Hung <jyhung2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the detailed thoughts, everyone. > > Eric (Badger), my understanding is the same as yours re. minor vs patch > releases. As for putting features into minor/patch releases, if we keep the > convention of putting new features only into minor releases, my assumption > is still that it's unlikely people will want to get them into branch-2 > (based on the 2.10.0 release process). For the java 11 issue, we haven't > even really removed support for java 7 in branch-2 (much less java 8), so I > feel moving to java 11 would go along with a move to branch 3. And as you > mentioned, if people really want to use java 11 on branch-2, we can always > revive branch-2. But for now I think the convenience of not needing to port > to both branch-2 and branch-2.10 (and below) outweighs the cost of > potentially needing to revive branch-2. > I don't think we should evern support java 11 in branch-2. "If you want to use a recent version of java - use a recent version of hadoop" I've not been backporting my stuff for a long, long time, and my general stance with branch-2 bug reports on bits of the code that I work on is "what does it do on hadoop 3.2?"
