If I am reading semver correctly (https://semver.org/#what-should-i-do-if-i-update-my-own-dependencies-without-changing-the-public-api) this proposal has no changes to the Accumulo public API, it is an update to our dependencies - and would not require a major version change.
-----Original Message----- From: Sean Busbey [mailto:bus...@cloudera.com.INVALID] Sent: Friday, November 01, 2019 3:52 AM To: dev@accumulo apache. org <dev@accumulo.apache.org> Subject: Re: [VOTE] Proposal to release version 1.10 -1 no dropping supported java versions in a minor release. if we want folks to move to java 8 then we should make it easier to upgrade to Accumulo 2.y On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 7:37 PM Ed Coleman <edcole...@apache.org> wrote: > > As suggested in the LTS discussion ([LAZY][VOTE] A basic, but > concrete, LTS proposal), I'm breaking this out to as a separate thread > to keep the topic distinct. > > > The proposal - I would like to start the formal release process for a > 1.10 version that would change the java language level to java 8. The > release would be based on the current 1.9 branch and would be released > instead of a 1.9.4. The 1.10 release would not contain additional > feature changes that are not present in the current 1.9 branch. > Currently, this would be based on the commit SHA: > > > 328ffa0849981e0f113dfbf539c832b447e06902 - committed Thu Oct 10. > > > (I am unaware of any bug-fixes or issues in the pipe line that would / > should be included - but hopefully this makes the intention clear.) > > > The goal is to provide a candidate for LTS nomination that is based on > the current 1.9.x code, but unifies our currently supported branches > to all use java 8 as the supported language level. While this had been > discussed in the past, enough time has passed that a java 8 > requirement now, seems to me, to be unlikely to impact any customers > that would look to upgrade Accumulo past a 1.9.3 version and have them not > running at least java 8. > Having our code base with a modern, unified java language support > level would greatly benefit our development and reduce the burden to > support our multiple branches. > > > This vote will be held open for at least the standard 72 hours. -- busbey
