Hi, I'd like to add a note to the final announcement about the JDK change and link a vote thread to it.
We've discussed about Java 7 [4], but as a few projects around us already have switched to Java 8 [1], I want an official vote about Java 7/8. As I anticipate a bit of controversy on this, I want to discuss first and then have a separate vote thread to be linked to from the announcement. Up till now I have 3 questions to vote - is there anything else, we should vote on for version 4.0? For the sake of simplicity, they aren't in the -1/0/1 response format. a) Is the next version 4.0 or do we have a 3.18? b) Which will be the next Java SE 7 or 8? The guidelines [2] are actually clear about this, but I'll ask that anyway: c) Will you join an opposing majority? Here are my votes: a) 4.0 b) JDK8 c) yes Regarding b) As we have a major break here and Java 7 is already at EOL [3], I'd like to use the opportunity to fast forward. When I look through a few rendering/AWT related bugs which occur in Java 6, I often see those are only fixed in Java 8. I have the impression, that dependent libraries/products either are dependent on older features and therefore can stick with 3.17 ... or they have already a current Java 8 compatible version out. To make up you mind, check [5] for a different stance on EOL/upgrading. For a quantitative list of POI dependencies check [6] Andi [1] http://ant.apache.org/antnews.html#Apache Ant 1.9.8 and 1.10.0 http://apache-xml-project.6118.n7.nabble.com/Java-2-1-0-release-td43800.html [2] https://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html [3] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html [4] http://apache-poi.1045710.n5.nabble.com/Java-6-support-td5721373.html [5] https://spring.io/blog/2015/04/01/ongoing-support-for-java-7-and-even-java-6 [6] https://github.com/centic9/github-version-statistics
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