There is no Apache wide recommendation, each project decides what is best for itself.
IMO, we should release one last maintenance release on Java 8 and then go directly to Java 17. Gary On Wed, Nov 29, 2023, 6:41 PM Joseph Kessselman <kesh...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > Java 8 was released in 2014, almost a decade ago. > > Since then there have been two Long-Term Stability releases: Java 11 > (2018) and 17 (2021). > > I'm wondering whether we still have anyone who really needs to run > Xalan on Java 8, or if we can/should move our minimum requirement > forward at least to 11 since some of our tooling may start to require it > soon. > > If we agree this change is acceptable/desirable, I can post a note to > the users list asking whether people would scream. > > We could also add a Java version check in Xalan at startup (if there > isn't one already) warning folks when they are on an unsupported or > deprecated level of Java, and declare 8 deprecated for a while. > > Not a high priority, but worth considering. > > Does Apache have anything resembling a recommendation on this? > > -- > ` /_ Joe Kesselman (he/him/his) > -/ _) My Alexa skill for New Music/New Sounds fans: > / https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09WJ3H657/ > Caveat: Opinionated old geezer with overcompensated writer's block. May > be redundant, verbose, prolix, sesquipedalian, didactic, officious, or > redundant. Feel free to call him on it. >
