Well, it has been over a year since we have had the 1.5 debate (see
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/lucene/java-dev/35972?
search_string=Java%201.5;#35972) and I think it is time we start
accepting 1.5 code. Nutch, Solr, Hadoop all use JDK 1.5 and I imagine
Tika will as well (and no, I wouldn't jump off the bridge if everyone
else did, but this is not the same.)
At a deeper level, I find it frustrating to have to dig into methods
and code that use Collections in order to figure out what is actually
in the Collection, thus I want generics. I want to use StringBuilder
instead of StringBuffer. I think we could benefit from some of the
concurrency stuff in 1.5 as well. I also believe all committers and
all contributors are using 1.5 already for there environment. I
would also _guess_ the large majority of our users are on 1.5. Now,
I know, it isn't a big deal to run 1.4 code in 1.5, but it is
annoying for development and that is a big enough motivator for me.
I would propose we do the following:
1. Put in any new deprecations we want, cleanups, etc.
2. Release 2.9 so all of Mike M's goodness is available to 1.4
users. We could do 2.4 and then 2.9 so that there are two more
iterations at 1.4 if people want a little more lead out time.
Still, I think the turnaround on these should be weeks, not months.
That is, 2.4 is the last significant 2.x release, 2.9 is a bug fix
and cleanup release and then we move on.
3. Announce that 2.9 will be the last version under JDK 1.4
4. Switch 3.0-dev to be on JDK 1.5, removing any deprecated code.
5. Start accepting 1.5 patches on 3.0-dev
Now, I think if there is someone who is really in dire need of 1.4 we
could work to give one or two people committer rights (after the
appropriate process has been undertaken, i.e. patching, interest,
etc.) on the 2.9 branch and they can be responsible for back-porting.
I'm not calling for a vote at this time, but I probably will after
some discussion.
Cheers,
Grant
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