[VOTE] Removing support for backends that are EOL

[Florian Hockmann]

Hi,

Jan already suggested in another discussion thread that we remove all support (code, tests, and docs) for backend versions that are already end of life (EOL).

He listed these versions there:

• Elasitcsearch: < 5.0.0 is EOL https://www.elastic.co/support/matrix
• Solr: < 6.4 is EOL http://lucene.apache.org/solr/community.html
• Berkeley DB JE: < 11.2.5 is EOL http://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/lifetime-support-technology-069183.pdf

On top of that, it looks like the lowest still supported version of HBase is 1.2.10: https://hbase.apache.org/downloads.html

So, we can drop support for HBase 0.98.z - 1.1.z.

I suggest that we remove support for these version for the upcoming 0.4.0 release (or 0.5.0 if we want to release 0.4.0 before that).

If we agree on that, then I further suggest that we make it our policy to remove support for versions of backends that aren't supported any more so we don't need further discussions for this matter in the future every time we want to drop support for a version.

Please respond with your vote on whether we should remove support for these unsupported backend versions or not and whether we further want to make this our general policy from now on.

[Oleksandr Porunov]

+1 for dropping support of EOL backends and making it as general policy.

[Ryan Stauffer]

+1 for the same

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[Jan Jansen]

+1 for both dropping support of EOL backends and making it as general policy.

[Chris Hupman]

+1 for both dropping support of EOL backends and making it as general policy.

[Chris Hupman]

I've had to restart the solr 5 test twice today and most weeks I generally have to restart it at least once. we have +1's from 1 TSC member and 3 commiters. Do you all think I'm good to submit a PR removing all the unsupported backends from travis testing?

On Thursday, February 21, 2019 at 6:42:00 AM UTC-8, Florian Hockmann wrote:

[Jason Plurad]

+1 makes sense to me

[Oleksandr Porunov]

I believe you can submit PR anyway. If any members have objections they can ask them here or in the PR.

[Florian Hockmann]

we have +1's from 1 TSC member and 3 commiters. Do you all think I'm good to submit a PR removing all the unsupported backends from travis testing?

Next time I'll start such a VOTE, I will include an end date directly in the opening post, 72h like we do for releases should be enough usually.

But yes, I think it's safe to say that the VOTE is closed now. Nearly one week should be enough for anyone to voice their opinion.

Results:

BINDING VOTES:

+1  (5 -- Oleksandr Porunov, Jan Jansen, Chris Hupman, Jason Plurad, Florian Hockmann)
0   (0)
-1  (0)

NON-BINDING VOTES:

+1 (1 -- Ryan Stauffer)
0  (0)
-1 (0)

Thank you very much.