As an FYI - https://adoptium.net/en-GB/support/ can give a guide as to the thinking around OSS support for Java 8 (Nov 2026 is the minimum timeline, it may extend).
Cheers, Martijn On Thu, 1 Jun 2023 at 23:36, Elliotte Rusty Harold <elh...@ibiblio.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 10:47 AM Romain Manni-Bucau > <rmannibu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Yep but this is also something an OSS product don't want to rely on (ie > > particular vendor specificities which can change), so we should probably > > stick to the global dates and align on these ones consistently. > > > > Yes, but that principle implies the opposite. We should not rely on > the particular vendor specificities of Oracle's commercial release, > including when they decide to stop supporting JDK 8. > > The open source release of JDK 8 is available and will continue to be > so for years. It is supported and maintained by multiple companies, > organizations, and individuals, not just Oracle. It is an active > project with quarterly releases and many active committers: > > https://wiki.openjdk.org/display/jdk8u/Main > > -- > Elliotte Rusty Harold > elh...@ibiblio.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > >
