Maybe we should send an email to the dev and users lists with something like this: --- Dropping F5 Support The F5 plugin currently does not have any maintainers and it is holding us back from making an important move to Java 8. If you depend on this plugin, we recommend that you contact the dev@ list and either contribute to the plugin upgrade, or commission someone to do it for you. --- At least this way we can give people fair warning and give them a chance to get into the dev cycle or pay someone to work on this before it affects their business. Ideally people will learn about dropped plugins before they are released and they are not learning about it in the release notes. :)
On Dec 27, 2016 3:19 AM, "Erik Weber" <terbol...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am +1 to removing code without maintainers, as long as it's not a core > feature. > > Erik > > > tir. 27. des. 2016 kl. 08.23 skrev Rohit Yadav <rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com > >: > > > All, > > > > > > > > > > > > Java7 has eol-ed, it's about time to move to Java8 for both codebase and > > runtime [1]. > > > > > > > > > > > > An experimental PR [2] shows that moving to Java8 is fairly straight > > forward. The only component that is failing is F5 network plugin, which > > lacks authors/maintainers as this issue has been previously raised on > dev@ > > [3]. > > > > > > > > > > > > In order to move to JDK8, we'll need to take hard decisions to > > comment/exclude plugins such as F5 from the default build profiles that > may > > not get fixes and improvements from their authors/maintainers. Thoughts, > > comments? > > > > > > > > > > > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-9710 > > > > > > > > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-9710> > > > > > > > > [2] https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/1864 > > > > > > > > [3] http://markmail.org/message/ggx5ycoezyr2ywel > > > > > > > > > > > > Regards. > > > > > > > > rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com > > > > www.shapeblue.com > > > > 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London WC2N 4HSUK > > > > @shapeblue > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
