[RESULT] [VOTE] Remove support for hadoop versions less than 2.6.0 from master

[Hitesh Shah <hi...@apache.org>]

With 7 binding +1s and no -1s, this vote passed. 

Thanks folks. Will start filing some follow-up jiras on updating docs in master for deprecation of support for older versions. 

— Hitesh

On Mar 8, 2016, at 11:52 AM, Hitesh Shah <hi...@apache.org> wrote:

> Hi 
> 
> To follow up on our early discussion regarding support of hadoop versions for future releases, I would like to call a vote on removing support for any hadoop version before 2.6.0. Ideally, a lot of things will remain compatible with older versions ( and hadoop-shims can be leveraged if someone is willing to volunteer a fix to make things more backward compatible ) but generally verifying that the software works with older versions should no longer be mandatory.
> 
> This vote will last 7 days ( to allow more time for comments from everyone ). 
> 
> Here is my +1.
> 
> thanks
> — Hitesh   
>