Sean Busbey wrote:
On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 8:55 AM, Josh Elser<[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for the input, Sean.
>
> Playing devil's advocate: we didn't have a major version bump when we
> dropped JDK6 support (in Accumulo-1.7.0). Oracle has EOL'ed java 7 back in
> April 2015. Was the 6->7 upgrade different than a 7->8 upgrade?
>
On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 10:31 AM, Keith Turner<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 1:54 AM, Sean Busbey<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> If we drop jdk7 support, I would strongly prefer a major version bump.
>>
>
>
> Whats the rationale for binding a bump to Accumulo 2.0 with a bump in the
> JDK version?
>
The decision to drop JDK6 support happened in latemarch / earlyApril
2014[1], long before any of our discussions or decisions on semver.
AFAICT it didn't get discussed again, presumably because by the time
we got to 1.7.0 RCs it was too far in the past.
Thanks for the correction, Sean. I hadn't dug around closely enough.
