Hi Hari, I am interested in doing the release management for 1.6.
Thanks, Rufus On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 12:13 PM, Hari Shreedharan < [email protected]> wrote: > 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
