+1 On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 8:59 AM, Munagala Ramanath <[email protected]> wrote:
> We've had a number of issues recently related to dependencies on old > versions > of various packages/libraries such as Hadoop itself, Google guava, > HTTPClient, > mbassador, etc. > > How about we create a "bleeding-edge" branch in both Core and Malhar which > will use the latest versions of these various dependencies, upgrade to Java > 8 so > we can use the new Java features, etc. ? > > This will give us an opportunity to discover these sorts of problems early > and, > when we are ready to pull the trigger for a major version, we have a branch > ready > for merge with, hopefully, minimal additional effort. > > There will be no guarantees w.r.t. this branch so people using it use it at > their own > risk. > > Ram >
