Yep, to be clear - Flume 1.6 will still have to be Java 6, since we added a bunch of features which never got shipped for Java 6. So we will switch to Java 7 only after the 1.6 release
Thanks, Hari On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Johny Rufus <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
