I'm a little worried that we are dropping it too soon given that OpenJDK will support 7 for another 1.5 years.
https://access.redhat.com/articles/1299013 .. Owen On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 10:49 AM, Siddharth Seth <ss...@apache.org> wrote: > +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. > > >
