On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Alejandro Abdelnur <t...@cloudera.com> wrote:
> After reading this thread and thinking a bit about it, I think it should be > OK such move up to JDK7 in Hadoop I agree with Alejandro. Changing minimum JDKs is not an incompatible change and is fine in the 2 branch. (Although I think it is would *not* be appropriate for a patch release.) Of course we need to do it with forethought and testing, but moving off of JDK 6, which is EOL'ed is a good thing. Moving to Java 8 as a minimum seems much too aggressive and I would push back on that. I'm also think that we need to let the dust settle on the Hadoop 2 line for a while before we talk about Hadoop 3. It seems that it has only been in the last 6 months that Hadoop 2 adoption has reached the main stream users. Our user community needs time to digest the changes in Hadoop 2.x before we fracture the community by starting to discuss Hadoop 3 releases. .. Owen
