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sagar commented on DERBY-6996:
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Agreed.
But JAVA release strategy is changing pretty fast.
And they have this LTS concept now. So one particular LTS release will have a 3
year maintenance cycle whereby it will get all security updates on priority it
seems.
I just had this suggestion if we can fastforward JDK11 LTS support for an
OCTOBER 2018 release of DERBY and then on possibly have a new JDK support every
3 years coinciding with the JDK LTS releases.
SUPPORT as in derby will run and compile on JDK11. Not necessary that new
features will be implemented in derby.
I am slowly deep diving into DERBY. I cannot wait to be able to contribute
something even if it means just adding comments or eliminating the use of
Vector.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-6809?focusedCommentId=16278391&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-16278391
Since, in effect, contributors have already agreed to drop support for older
Java, I thought possibly just possibly DERBY 11 would be DERBY 11 LTS
supporting JDK11 LTS.
And since Java 9 now supports modular development, just thinking if NOSQL can
be written as a module and plugged in.
MVCC dunno if that can be written as a module, I think it needs to be a part of
the core engine.
> New Java LTS phenomenon and Derby
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> Key: DERBY-6996
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-6996
> Project: Derby
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: sagar
> Priority: Major
>
> Java will now have a 6 monthly release cycle and an LTS every 3 years.
> So the next LTS is Java 11 to be released in September 2018.
> Will Derby also have LTS.
> I propose that Derby supports only LTS releases of Java.
> As in Derby 11 would be Java 11 LTS.
> Then 3 years later a major release of Derby to coincide with Java LTS.
> In between there could be point releases for fixing bugs or incorporating
> absolutely non ignorable performance enhancement in the 6 month Java release.
> Just a suggestion.
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