hi folks, Just a heads up that the Hadoop community is considering dropping JDK7 support in the Hadoop 2 release line. They haven't gotten to the point of a formal DISCUSS thread yet, but there's an active JIRA for the necessary precursor work[1] and it has a chorus of +1s so far.
If we think we'll be keeping branch-1 around longer than the expected lifespan of Hadoop 2.9 (or whatever the last JDK7 supporting Hadoop 2 ends up being) then it would be good if we participated in the conversation. -busbey [1]: HADOOP-16219
