Again, this is a community decision and not one to make at a pull request level. Bring it to the dev@ list and drive the DISCUSS, change the PR to pass in current project state or wait for the community to bring it up.
It's not getting merged while failing test runs on currently supported Java versions and we aren't dropping support for a clean up pull request. On Fri, Jan 16, 2026, 6:24 PM edwardcapriolo (via GitHub) <[email protected]> wrote: > > edwardcapriolo commented on PR #506: > URL: > https://github.com/apache/incubator-livy/pull/506#issuecomment-3762197767 > > As it relates to Java 8. I used to be a system admin, and I am all > about backwards compatibility. But for realism sake: Spark is at 3.5 (17) > and 4.X. I find it really hard to believe someone would pick up livy trunk > today, and say "I really want to run new shiny living on spark 2.3 and > hadoop 2.4 on java 8". Likewise I cant imagine anyone using livy-0.7 on > spark2 and then saying "i need this critical bug fix in trunk" I would say > branch off an old one. > > > -- > This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. > To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the > URL above to go to the specific comment. > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: > [email protected] > >
