I vote for option #2 Cheers
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Enis Söztutar <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Just wanted to kick off a discussion around whether or not we would > explicitly drop support for JDK6 in 1.0, and hence all 1.x releases. > > There has been some discussion on hadoop common-dev[1] about this with no > conclusion so far. The general consensus was that hadoop might drop jdk6 > support in 3.0, but keep it for 2.x releases (which makes sense for them). > > I would like us to come to a decision for 1.0, and document this in either > outcome so that all 1.x releases can be validated against that decision. > > 1) Drop JDK6 support in 1.0 series: > - In this case, we will switch all jenkins builds of trunk (precommit as > well) to jdk7. 0.98- builds might keep jdk6 and jdk7 builds. > - Trunk code can use JDK7 APIs. > > 2) NOT drop JDK6 support in 1.0 > - Keep a jenkins build running on jdk6 with trunk running unit tests. > - Decide whether we can drop support in 2.x. > > > In either case we document this in book (A JDK version x HBase version > release matrix) > > > [1] > > https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hadoop-common-dev/201404.mbox/%3ccabbyifm02nmvarparpqnsej8gb5x9wtty8c18tafr6z4tql...@mail.gmail.com%3E > > Enis >
