Proposal is not to maintain parallel branches, but to make next release to require Java 8 and start using it for new development / step by step enhance existing APIs to benefit Java 8
> What would change in 3/ 6 months ? > Lot's of people will still run RHEL 5 and build legacy Java 1.3 > applications. > > Ok, maybe 10 LTS's then. We need to have a plan for supporting the past > and the future. If we do have so many people wanting the java6 branch, > then they should be able to support it. It sounds like we have a large > number of people interested in java8 and I don't think such a transition > will be ready for quite some time. I imagine we will also have people using > both and maintaining both. I still have RHEL5 and a SPARC and I will do > what I have to with those as long as I need to. But I also have bleeding > edge items and I'd like to see Jenkins continue to push that envelope. This > is a community, I can't imagine that if the mainline moved on to Java8 we > wouldn't still help those who are still using the current mainline. > > - > Thomas > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/D13733B8.11501%25thomas.suckow%40pnnl.gov > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/D13733B8.11501%25thomas.suckow%40pnnl.gov?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CANMVJznBdm3DmnZ_GO0viCawUek0yXj3jnSiZR%3DoDpHObR%2BSvQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
