Actually the Java 7 thing is just so that we can finally use Java 7 API. So moving to 8 and then targeting 7 would work fine I think.
So when I meant release volunteering is that the volunteer would do the release, and I can push the bits out. On Thursday, February 12, 2015, Ashish <[email protected]> wrote: > Java 7 shall be EOLed in April 2015. Any issues in moving directly to > 1.8 (perhaps generate target binary with 1.7 version if needed)? Just > a wild thought :) Perhaps after migration we can move to 2.0 and do > some breaking changes as well :) > > I am not sure but don't think anyone other than committer can do a > release, else he won't be able to push generated stuff and website > > Johny would be able to release faster than me, believe he is co-located. > > thanks > ashish > > > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 4:03 AM, Hari Shreedharan > <[email protected] <javascript:;>> wrote: > > 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] > <javascript:;>> 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] <javascript:;>> 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 > > > > -- > thanks > ashish > > Blog: http://www.ashishpaliwal.com/blog > My Photo Galleries: http://www.pbase.com/ashishpaliwal >
