Nathan Beyer wrote: > Maybe it is just me, but I really don't like calling our users > "customers". It makes me cringe when I hear that.
How about "stakeholders" :-) > I don't think this question is sufficent. We need to consider JDK and > JRE uses separately. Yes, most java 5 code should run on a java 6 JRE, > but you wouldn't use a java 6 JDK for java 5 dev - it is too much of a > risk when compiling against the class library. I've seen this issue bite > back too many times. We can reassess once we have got the two on offer. For now we are only testing and releasing the Java 5 branch regularly, and I don't think anyone is suggesting that we stop Java 5 'cold' and switch to Java 6 branch releases. There would have to be a reasonable overlap of (IMHO) two or three releases of both branches. Regards, Tim > On Apr 21, 2009, at 11:43 AM, Alexei Fedotov <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Alexey, thanks for interesting polls. Well, I believe we should state >> the question differently: >> >> How many java programs which run with Java 1.5 cannot be run using >> Java 1.6? >> Or even better: does Harmony have customers (including internal >> customers) which cannot easily switch to Java 6? >> >> >> >> >> 2009/4/21 Alexey Varlamov <[email protected]>: >>> 20 апреля 2009 г. 15:47 пользователь Tim Ellison >>> <[email protected]> написал: >>>> Alexei Fedotov wrote: >>>>> Under resource constraints we may even think of dropping Java 5 in >>>>> favor of >>>>> Java 6. This would save Java 6 supporters their merge efforts and >>>>> nullify >>>>> merge bugs. >>>> >>>> Maybe. I hadn't thought of going that far - at least, not without a >>>> reasonable overlap period that allows people to migrate from 5.0 to 6.0 >>>> stream. >>>> >>>> Given we don't make a big deal of publishing the 6.0 stream code today, >>>> I think it would be unreasonable to abandon the 5.0 stream >>>> abruptly. We >>>> may well get to that point over time. >>> >>> In fact Java5 is still widely used (more than 1/3 of polled audience >>> on average), so surely we should not abandon it now. >>> >>> [1] http://www.misterpoll.com/polls/347384/results >>> [2] >>> http://www.jroller.com/scolebourne/entry/devoxx_2008_whiteboard_votes >>> [3] http://www.jivesoftware.com/jivespace/poll.jspa?poll=1021 >>> >>> -- >>> Alexey >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> With best regards / с наилучшими пожеланиями, >> Alexei Fedotov / Алексей Федотов, >> http://www.telecom-express.ru/ >> http://people.apache.org/~aaf/ >> http://harmony.apache.org/ >> http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/ >
