Why don't we just make the 1.8 branch 2.0 then? I really don't want to drop support for JDKs on non-major releases; it's super disruptive.
On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 4:01 PM, Christopher <[email protected]> wrote: > I know we've talked about this before, but I kind of want to just use Java > 8 for Accumulo 1.8. It'd help clean up some things in the build (can make > use of newer versions of build plugins, and make it easier for new > development against the latest release). > > I just don't know how reasonable it is to keep making new, non-bugfix > releases on EOL JDKs (even though I may have previously argued that it'd be > safer to just wait until a major version bump). -- busbey
