Hi Andrew, I recently submitted a PR to support virtual private clouds (vpc) in aws-s3 (https://github.com/apache/jclouds/pull/206). As I was doing this, I noticed that all of the changes made since March 2024 have been about upgrading (and requiring) Java 11 and Jakarta interfaces. I understand why we need to move to Jakarta (thanks to Oracle). I'm a bit in the dark as to why we cannot maintain backward compatibility with Java 8.
Is there a branch that will continue to support Java 8? And will community-provided patches moving forward always (for a while anyway) be backported to this branch? Some of us don't have the option of upgrading from Java 8 to 11 in the immediate future. We have millions of lines of code on Java 8. I'm certain we're not the only ones in this boat, so a mandatory move to Java 11 has a tendency to alienate a portion of the jclouds community. Thanks, John Calcote
