On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 10:26 AM Andrew Haley <a...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On 3/2/20 10:46 PM, Volker Simonis wrote: > > > As lead of the 8 and 11 update projects you probably know best, if this fix > > will eventually be considered for backporting and choose your means wisely > > :) > > Yeah, I know. Srsly. :-) > > But one of the few things of which I am certain is that we must not > allow the needs of backporting to determine the future of Java. That's > the way of staying in the past. > > As Patrick Head put it, “Some people tell me that Formula 1 would be > better if the drivers still used stick shifts, but that’s a bit like > saying, 'isn’t it a pity we don’t still walk around in clogs!'” >
Totally agree. > -- > Andrew Haley (he/him) > Java Platform Lead Engineer > Red Hat UK Ltd. <https://www.redhat.com> > https://keybase.io/andrewhaley > EAC8 43EB D3EF DB98 CC77 2FAD A5CD 6035 332F A671 >
