Hello Everybody,
On 23.06.20 15:56, Jaroslav Tulach wrote:
Hello Neil,
I'd like to understand what my colleagues requirements on LTS are as well!
There seems to be some inherent mismatch when we talk about it, so I am not
really sure. But let's try:
#1 - we need support for JDK8 - everytime we upgrade I have to prove that
JDK8 is still supported and treated seriously. There is a fear that Apache
NetBeans community drops support for JDK8 and we'll be stuck with some
ancient version of NetBeans Platform.
i mean this can't be postponed indefinitely. At some point the netbeans
project will have to decide if it wants to support running on JDK8 for
the next 10+ years (public java 8 support ends 2030, payed support will
most likely go on forever and morph into cobol ;)). Or branch into a
multi-year longterm release in maintenance mode for ancient JDKs and a
mainline release for new features.
If projects don't mind to run on ancient JDKs which still get
bugfix/security releases, they should also not mind to use ancient NB
platforms which also still get periodic bugfix releases. If they require
something else they should sponsor a backport branch / contributions /
get involved etc.
JDK 8 is a special case after all since it is the last major release
under the old release model. It should get a bit easier in future.
regarding the IDE: I personally am always using the latest IDE running
on the latest JDK. If i would encounter a showstopper bug i would switch
to the last update release which worked fine for me until its fixed -
LTS or not wouldn't play a big role in the decision which version to
fall back to.
just my 2c,
best regards,
michael
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