+1 On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 8:54 PM, Thejas Nair <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. >
