We are not actively release maintenance releases, but companies who use Sentry do. I suggest to split the discussion into two separate threads - one is about moving to JDK8 and a separate one about actually allowing JDK8 specific features because these are very different decisions with different consequences.
On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 7:07 AM, Sergio Pena <sergio.p...@cloudera.com> wrote: > Agree with Colm. > > We're not active on releasing maintenance releases (something to consider > by the way) and the current Sentry 2.0 development is redesigning code that > it might not work for older releases. > > On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 4:24 AM, Colm O hEigeartaigh <cohei...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > +1 to switch to JDK 8 + Datanucleus 4. > > > > Alex, I'm just wondering how likely it is that we will run into these > > backporting scenarios? If I look at the past releases I don't see too > many > > minor releases: > > > > [DIR] 1.2.0-incubating/ 2016-04-06 17:49 - > > [DIR] 1.3.0-incubating/ 2016-04-06 17:49 - > > [DIR] 1.4.0-incubating/ 2016-04-06 17:49 - > > [DIR] 1.5.1-incubating/ 2016-04-06 17:49 - > > [DIR] 1.6.0-incubating/ 2016-04-06 17:49 - > > [DIR] 1.7.0/ 2017-06-26 18:46 - > > [DIR] 1.8.0/ > > > > It seems a bit limiting not to allow lambdas to me given that we don't > > maintain active older release branches. > > > > Colm. > > > > On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 12:34 AM, Alexander Kolbasov <ak...@cloudera.com > > > > wrote: > > > > > +1 for both. > > > > > > I would be still against actually allowing Java 8 specific code since > > > people may want to backport fixes to old releases which might still use > > > Java 7. Allowing Java-8 exclusive features may make this process > > > complicated. Lambdas are cute, but we can do without them for a while. > It > > > would be good to have some automatic enforcement so that Java8 features > > do > > > not leak in accidentally. > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 3:56 PM, Na Li <lina...@cloudera.com> wrote: > > > > > > > +1 for moving to datanucleus 4 and Java 8 > > > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 3:48 PM, Sergio Pena < > sergio.p...@cloudera.com > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi All, > > > > > > > > > > There is a JIRA request (SENTRY-1893 > > > > > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SENTRY-1893>) looking to > add > > > > > support > > > > > for JDK8 and make it as the default and minimum JDK version to use. > > > JDK7 > > > > > has reached the end of life, and many other Apache components > > > (including > > > > > Hive 2.1) have already switched to JDK8 as the minimum version. > > > > > > > > > > I would like to use this email thread to discuss if we should > follow > > > this > > > > > trend and switch to JDK8 on our current Sentry 2.0 development. > > Moving > > > to > > > > > JDK8 will also allow us to use the new API that brings, such as > > lambda > > > > > functions. > > > > > > > > > > Also, in order to support JDK8, we should switch to Datanucleus 4 > > > because > > > > > Datanucleus 3 have some problems with it. Datanucleus 3 is also > old, > > > and > > > > > other components already switched to version 4 as well. We already > > have > > > > > support for version 4, so the question here is if we should drop > > > > > Datanucleus 3 support and just use version 4 as the default. > > > > > > > > > > Sentry 2.0 is our current major version development, so it makes > > sense > > > to > > > > > do this move in this version. > > > > > > > > > > What do you all think? > > > > > > > > > > - Sergio > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Colm O hEigeartaigh > > > > Talend Community Coder > > http://coders.talend.com > > >
