Java 8 was marked as EOL in the middle of last year, I hope we wouldn't require it for Cassandra 4. At this point I feel like we should already be targeting Java 10 at a minimum.
Personally I'd prefer not to tie our releases to any vendor / product / package's release schedule. On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 6:49 AM Jason Brown <jasedbr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm coming to be on-board with #3. > > One thing to watch out for (we can't account for it now) is how our > dependencies choose to move forward. If we need to upgrade a jar (netty, > for example) due to some leak or vulnerability, and it only runs on a > higher version, we may be forced to upgrade the base java version. Like, I > said we can't possibly foresee these things, and we'll just have to make a > hard decision if the situation arises, but just something to keep in mind. > > > On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 5:39 AM, Josh McKenzie <jmcken...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > > > > > 3) Release 4.0 for Java 8, *optionally* branch 4.1 for Java 11 later > > > > This seems like the best of our bad options, with the addition of > > "optionally". > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 8:12 AM, Gerald Henriksen <ghenr...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 04:54:23 +0000, you wrote: > > > > > > >I think Michael is right. It would be impossible to make everyone > follow > > > >such a fast release scheme, and supporting it will be pressured onto > the > > > >various distributions, M$ and Apple. > > > >On the other hand https://adoptopenjdk.net has already done a lot of > > the > > > >work and it's already rumoured they may take up backporting of > > > security/bug > > > >fixes. I'd fully expect a lot of users to collaborate around this (or > > > >similar), and there's no reason we couldn't do our part to contribute. > > > > > > A posting on Reddit yesterday from someone from adoptopenjdk claimes > > > that they will be doing LTS releases starting with Java 11, and there > > > should be updates to their website to reflect that soon: > > > > > > https://www.reddit.com/r/java/comments/86ce66/java_long_term_support/ > > > > > > So I guess a wait and see to what they commit could be worthwhile. > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org > > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org > > > > > > > > >
