Am 19.08.2014 15:34, schrieb Jacopo Cappellato: > Before I start the process of preparing the release files for the first > release of the 13.07 series and call a vote on it I would like to get your > feedback on a couple of topics. > > Should we backport to it the recent switch to Java 7?
What does this mean exactly? Should it run with Java 7 (including passing all tests)? Yes, of course ... actually is does, I just checked. Should Java 7 be the minimum requirement to run it? I'm not sure on this one ... about which commit are you talking? > Should we backport to it the recent update to Log4j2? I haven't followed this changed closely but it sounds good and "No more missing log entries due to logger overflows" sounds actually like a bugfix to me ;-) +1 for this change > The main reason I am asking this is that once we release the first release > out of 13.07, for sure we will not backport the aforementioned upgrades > (because they are not bugs); however the 13.07 releases will stay with us for > at least 2 years and it would be nice to do the migration to these new > technologies now. Christian
