+1 Thanks Prasanth
On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 8:55 PM -0800, "Thejas Nair" <thejas.n...@gmail.com<mailto:thejas.n...@gmail.com>> wrote: There was a [DISCUSS] thread on the topic of moving to jdk8 for unit tests [1], and many people also expressed the opinion that we should drop JDK 7 support in Hive. Public updates by Oracle was stopped on Apr 2015 [2]. This vote thread proposes to dropping JDK 7 support in the next Apache Hive 2.x release (ie master branch), so that we can start leveraging new features in Java 8 and also libraries that require java8. [1] https://s.apache.org/hive-jdk8-test [2] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html Here is my +1. Vote ends in 72 hours. Thanks, Thejas PS: I think this would fall under "Code change" under Hive-bylaws, so it doesn't seem to really require a formal vote thread. But I think this does merit wider attention than a jira ticket.
