+1(nb)
> On Jun 13, 2025, at 10:47 PM, Doug Rohrer <droh...@apple.com> wrote:
>
> +1 (nb) with the clarified verbiage (thanks for talking through that with me).
>
> Doug
>
>> On Jun 13, 2025, at 3:55 PM, Aaron <aaronplo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> +1
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM Yifan Cai <yc25c...@gmail.com
>> <mailto:yc25c...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> +1 (nb)
>>> Read through the long discussion, the plan makes sense to me.
>>>
>>> From: Brandon Williams <dri...@gmail.com <mailto:dri...@gmail.com>>
>>> Sent: Friday, June 13, 2025 12:09:35 PM
>>> To: dev@cassandra.apache.org <mailto:dev@cassandra.apache.org>
>>> <dev@cassandra.apache.org <mailto:dev@cassandra.apache.org>>
>>> Subject: Re: [VOTE] Clarifying our JDK Support Policy
>>>
>>> +1
>>>
>>> Kind Regards,
>>> Brandon
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 13, 2025 at 12:23 PM Josh McKenzie <jmcken...@apache.org
>>> <mailto:jmcken...@apache.org>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > If removed, we drop the required older JDK across all branches when the
>>> > feature is removed.
>>> >
>>> > Talking to Doug about this; let's revise this phrasing to:
>>> > "When the feature has been removed from all supported branches, the
>>> > constraint to retain JDK support for that feature drops with it."
>>> >
>>> > On Fri, Jun 13, 2025, at 7:58 AM, Josh McKenzie wrote:
>>> >
>>> > +1
>>> >
>>> > On Fri, Jun 13, 2025, at 7:56 AM, Josh McKenzie wrote:
>>> >
>>> > [DISCUSS] thread:
>>> > https://lists.apache.org/thread/vr7j2ob92k6fbcwvlfo60l3scylzdbft
>>> >
>>> > Text to vote on:
>>> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> > [New LTS JDK Adoption]
>>> >
>>> > When a new JDK goes LTS, we prioritize:
>>> >
>>> > Moving trunk to build, run, pass CI, and support language level of that
>>> > JDK, dropping others
>>> > Adding support to run on that JDK to all supported GA releases, passing
>>> > all CI using that JDK
>>> >
>>> > These 2 operations must merge atomically. This allows us to preserve the
>>> > contract of allowing like-to-like JDK's for a live C* upgrade
>>> >
>>> > [Build, run, language level, Pre Commit CI, EOL]
>>> >
>>> > trunk builds, runs, has CI on, and supports the language level of 1 JDK
>>> > at any given time (ideally latest LTS JDK)
>>> >
>>> > Supported non-trunk GA branches:
>>> >
>>> > build, run, pass CI, and support the language level of the oldest JDK
>>> > they are certified for
>>> > Are supported to run on all LTS JDK's between their oldest supported and
>>> > newest LTS supported by trunk
>>> >
>>> > In the very rare case a feature would have to be removed due to JDK
>>> > change (think UDF's scripting engine), we instead keep the maximum
>>> > allowable JDK for that feature supported on trunk and subsequent
>>> > releases. The feature is flagged for deprecate-then-remove or
>>> > re-implementation based on dev ML discussion. If removed, we drop the
>>> > required older JDK across all branches when the feature is removed.
>>> > Supporting new LTS JDK's is considered higher priority than supporting
>>> > features that JDK's are no longer compatible with, pending debate on the
>>> > dev ML.
>>> >
>>> > Dropping JDK support happens naturally as old releases go EOL.
>>> >
>>> > [Post Commit JDK validation CI]
>>> >
>>> > Periodically we will run all CI pipelines for all runtime supported JDK's
>>> > for that branch (cadence TBD)
>>> > We will add basic perf testing across all GA branches + their supported
>>> > runtime JDK's with reference workloads from easy-cass-stress for a simple
>>> > performance-based smoke test
>>> >
>>> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> > Vote structure:
>>> >
>>> > Roll call is 25.
>>> > Quorum: 13 (min required votes to qualify results)
>>> > Super-majority of participating votes in favor required to pass (9 in
>>> > favor at 13 min votes, etc)
>>> >
>>> > Will leave the vote open for a week.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>
