I'd be +1 for Java 8, but making a 3.0 release is a different story. For that, I'd like to see a lot more than just the Java version increase.
On 29 January 2018 at 11:07, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 to Java 8 now and call the next release 3.0. > > Gary > > On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 10:03 AM, Ralph Goers <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Ceki has started a poll to upgrade Logback to Java 8 - > > https://doodle.com/poll/s7n3wk59694pmnbs <https://doodle.com/poll/ > > s7n3wk59694pmnbs>. The last poll I saw was in May of last year that had > > Java 7 at about 30%. https://plumbr.io/blog/java/ > > java-version-and-vendor-data-analyzed-2017-edition < > > https://plumbr.io/blog/java/java-version-and-vendor-data- > > analyzed-2017-edition>. Based on the Java 6 graph I anticipate that Java > > 7 will be under 20% this year. I had been thinking that upgrading to > Java 8 > > in September or so would be the right time, but with all this > > modularization work I am wondering if moving to Java 8 now makes more > sense. > > > > Thoughts? > > > > Ralph > -- Matt Sicker <[email protected]>
