My +1 for trunk :-) I will change hudson scripts once this vote passes!
----- Uwe Schindler H.-H.-Meier-Allee 63, D-28213 Bremen http://www.thetaphi.de eMail: [email protected] > -----Original Message----- > From: Simon Willnauer [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 7:38 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [VOTE] Drop Java 5 support for trunk (Lucene 4.0) > > This issue has been discussed on various occasions and lately on > LUCENE-3239 (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-3239) > > The main reasons for this have been discussed on the issue but let me put > them out here too: > > - Lack of testing on Jenkins with Java 5 > - Java 5 end of lifetime is reached a long time ago so Java 5 is totally > unmaintained which means for us that bugs have to either be hacked > around, tests disabled, warnings placed, but some things simply cannot be > fixed... we cannot actually "support" something that is no longer maintained: > we do find JRE bugs > (http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/SunJavaBugs) and its important that > bugs actually get fixed: cannot do everything with hacks.\ > - due to Java 5 we legitimate performance hits like 20% slower grouping > speed. > > For reference please read through the issue mentioned above. > > A lot of the committers seem to be on the same page here to drop Java > 5 support so I am calling out an official vote. > > all Lucene 3.x releases will remain with Java 5 support this vote is for trunk > only. > > > Here is my +1 > > Simon > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional > commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
