> + > +1. It's time to seriously considering dropping support for Java 6. Java 6 is > officially end-of-life and has been a security bug ridden mess for Java. It's > time to move on. We agreed on a rough plan of action to move forward. > + 1. Reach out to users. A blog post dedicated to the topic and sending > out an email and tweets to get user feedback. > + 1. The last branch to have support for Java 1.6 will be a long lived > branch, effectively indefinite. We will backport crucial bug fixes and do > releases on the branch but no new features will be added to it. > + 1. The exact timing and releases in which these things happen have yet > to be decided on. > +1. There was concern expressed by the Maginatics team over the performance > impact of the RestAnnotationProcessor for BlobStore intensive work. > + 1. In his presentation, Gaul mentioned that Maginatics had discovered > that the overhead of reflection call in the RestAnnotationProcessor were > causing what should have been I/O intensive work to also be CPU bound. > + 1. The Maginatics team was interested in experimenting with alternatives > to the RestAnnotationProcessor. > + 1. This experimentation could be achieved by supporting a new BlobStore > provider or altering a seldom used BlobStore provider with a new way of > making the HTTP calls. > +1. There was also some interest in creating a compatibility matrix of what > features cloud providers offer and what subset of those features jclouds > supported. > + 1. Andrew Gaul offered to create such a matrix for BlobStore providers. > + 1. Andrew Bayer offered to create such a matrix for ComputeService > providers. > + > +## Next > + > +Next up, you can find jclouds at SXSW Interactive at the [Cloud Portability > Workshop with Multi-Cloud Toolkits](https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP17712). > You can also find us at ApacheCon in the [Introduction to Apache > jclouds](http://apacheconnorthamerica2014.sched.org/event/50669b4904135c2ee7c755b923120ab3), > [Taming the Cloud Database with Apache > jclouds](http://apacheconnorthamerica2014.sched.org/event/7a27f693d6c64f946568eb3ee4fd6354), > and [Enabling Walkup Contributions to Your Project > Documentation](http://apacheconnorthamerica2014.sched.org/event/8032b496d174c581fbf8f43dd3526e1e) > sessions. Hope to see you there!
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