On 13 February 2018 at 18:50, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I seriously doubt that Oracle will turn down a pile of cash ... > Yeah, me neither. > If we want to say that in the future, we plan on only supporting LTS > releases, sure, we can say that now, but what's the point? We are so far > from that it seems. We could say that that's what we'd like to do as > something sensible and not leading to a trip to the loony bin. But it seems > like future tripping since we are thinking on staying on Java 8 for a > while. > Considering the number of times the question has been asked about when we can upgrade to Java 8, having a general policy surrounding the support cycle of Java itself makes a lot of sense. We could even use it with breaking version number changes (e.g., 3.x is Java 8, 4.x is Java 11, 5.x is Java 14, ...). -- Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>
