Alex, Putting on my systems administrator hat, I consider security updates a significant, if not, vital feature. Since Oracle will cease issuing security updates for Java6 at the end of this month (February 2013), I think support for Java7 becomes compelling if not mandatory. Since we will not officially support Java7 in 4.1, our users be forced to run on an unsupported JRE for 4-6 months. The question to my mind is not whether or not Java7 is supported in the next major release (with Java6 deprecated), but can we provide a remediation sooner that would allow our users to run on a supported JRE?
Thanks, -John On Feb 26, 2013, at 2:55 PM, Alex Huang <alex.hu...@citrix.com> wrote: > I apologize for this. I really meant popular distro versions instead of > "new". > > We have to consider existing CloudStack users here. They may want to update > CloudStack but have an existing OS deployment that they're perfectly fine > with and updating it means more complications in the upgrade process and > longer downtime. I don't think we can cease support for 6 that quickly. > > In my previous work, support for an older Java version generally ceases only > when the newer Java version has features that we really want to use. For > example, generics or annotations. Is there anything Java 7 that we really > need to use in CloudStack? > > --Alex > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Joe Brockmeier [mailto:j...@zonker.net] >> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 11:19 AM >> To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org >> Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Supported Java version >> >> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013, at 12:38 PM, John Burwell wrote: >>> +1 to the major version bump. >>> On Feb 26, 2013, at 6:07 AM, Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl> wrote: >>> >>>> On 02/25/2013 06:36 PM, Alex Huang wrote: >>>>> I don't think these things are mutually exclusive. >>>>> >>>>> We should support Java7. >>>>> We should keep supporting Java6 until it is no longer supported by the >> new distros. >> >> So - Oracle Java 6 is no longer supported by Ubuntu, at least, nor shipped >> any >> longer. >> >> OpenJDK 6 will wind down support this month, if I'm understanding things >> correctly: >> >> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk6-dev/2013-January/002835.html >> >> We should deprecate Java 6 in 4.2 - continue to support it, but be very loud >> that we are going to cease officially supporting Java 6 after 4.2. >> If that means we bump 4.2+1 to 5.0, then it's probably going to be time to do >> so. >> >> Best, >> >> jzb >> -- >> Joe Brockmeier >> j...@zonker.net >> Twitter: @jzb >> http://www.dissociatedpress.net/
