Hi fellow devs,
Hadoop just released 2.6 which is their last release on Java 6. Since Java 6 was EOL-ed a long time ago, we should think about doing that in Flume as well. To make sure we have all the recent features committed available for users of Java 6, we should do that only once 1.6 is released. So in this email, I want to propose two things: 1. Release 1.6 as soon as possible. Any one from the community who is interested in doing the release management for this release, please let me know. I will gladly mentor you :-) 2. Post 1.6, drop Java 6 support - so things like Java 7-only DirectoryWatcher API can be used for things like SpoolDir or a Tail Source. Let me know if anyone disagrees with blocking Java 6. Thanks, Hari
