What does support for JDK 6 mean in the community context here? The Hadoop discussion (eventually) settled on when they might adopt APIs only available in JDK 7 or later. We have no such proposals on the table here, right? I see this mentioned in option #1 but is there any 7+ API we care about? Otherwise that discussion is premature.
Unless we pick up new 7+ APIs then it's a question of what runtimes we are running builds against or testing with. I plan to do this with 7 and 8 just as a personal preference. Keeping the lights on for JDK 6 on Jenkins seems perfectly fine to do if we have volunteers to fix the issues found there. That begs the question what happens when that build starts failing. Simply filing JIRAs pointing out test failures is noise, those are junk issues without failure analysis and patches. I suspect someone will do occasional searches for such issues and close as Invalid or Cannot Reproduce. Anyone here interested in committing to fix failing JDK 6 builds? 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 > -- Best regards, - Andy Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein (via Tom White)
