Ok Enis I like the definition you put in the thread. Dropping support explicitly means that we stop building against JDK6 in jenkins, and won't try to fix issues if they are jdk6 only. Release testing and unit tests are done on jdk7.
And it implies; we may start to use 1.7 specific features. With this definition: 1) Do we drop support for JDK6 in .98 2) Do we drop support for JDK6 in 1.0 Does anyone think we need to discuss this or can we start a vote on this? If there is no objection I will start the vote thread in an hour or two. Cheers, N. On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 8:14 PM, Enis Söztutar <[email protected]> wrote: > See the thread: > > > https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hbase-dev/201404.mbox/%3CCAMUu0w_KgwTLWkTc3W85H4yYuDSaEn=Ncf7ziRhhMZ=hfod...@mail.gmail.com%3E > > There was no conclusion in that thread. But it should be ok to start a VOTE > I guess. > > Enis > > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Andrew Purtell <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Er, I mean no user should be running on a runtime less than 7, they are > all > > EOL... > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Andrew Purtell <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Nicolas Liochon <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > >> Should we be 1.7 only for trunk / 1.0? > > >> This would mean using the 1.7 features. > > >> > > > > > > I think this is prudent. Hadoop common is having a similar discussion > and > > > I think converging on consensus that they would be ok with their trunk > > > including features only available in 7. > > > > > > > > >> What about .98? > > >> > > > > > > I don't think this is an option, because although no user should be > > > running with a 7 runtime (and in fact performance conscious users > should > > be > > > looking hard at 8), vendors will still have to support customers on 6. > > > > > > > -- > > > Best regards, > > > > > > - Andy > > > > > > Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet > Hein > > > (via Tom White) > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Best regards, > > > > - Andy > > > > Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein > > (via Tom White) > > >
