Hi, a) 4.0, with 3.18 bugfix release if necessary b) JDK 1.8 as long as Tika can handle it or requires JDK 8 as well then c) yes d) yes, semver
Dominik. On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 6:52 PM, Greg Woolsey <greg.wool...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm of two minds regarding 4.0 vs. 3.18. I know there are big changes in > discussion, that would warrant a major version, but I'm suspicious I'll > find in the next 3 months something else in formula evaluation/conditional > formatting/table styles that requires a POI bug fix, and I'd like for that > to not need to wait until a major API breaking release to get out in a > release. > > That sounds like a maintenance branch to me, but I don't generally like > those very much. So I'm not sure where I stand. > > I'm leaning more toward calling a 4.0 release, since we know we want to > make those changes, and my reservations are only about unknowns, nothing > concrete. I suppose I could get behind a 4.0 next, with the possibility of > taking the lead if needed on a possible 3.18 backport branch for bug fixes > if something significant pops up. > > So my voting: > > A) 4.0 > B) JDK8 (7 is fine but I don't have any use/need for it) > C) yes > > On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 4:06 PM Andreas Beeker <kiwiwi...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > > >
