Github user afs commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/jena/pull/61#issuecomment-101214478
Actually, it looks like there is quite an impetus to get Hadoop on Java8
(even if Java6/7 bytecodes). EOL is making it a focus of attention.
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