afs commented on PR #196: URL: https://github.com/apache/commons-rdf/pull/196#issuecomment-1951380844
The Jena project policy is "2 LTS". Jena 4.x requires Java11; Jena 5.x requires Java17. While free support for Java8 is available in some distributions (October 2026 for Eclipse Temurin) it is not universal. and Eclipse Temurin has only said that Java11 is supported until October 2024. A sign of Java moving to the more regular release cycle. From the Jena's project experience, bugs are not all backported, only major ones and security related ones. As a project Jena, isn't in a position to have multiple release branches without addition active contribution for that task. Restricting to Java8 would probably discourage contributors. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org
