We could enforce java6 signatures for the branches using the animal-sniffer-maven-plugin. This should help detect bogus backports quickly.
Regards Julian On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 10:57 AM, Francesco Mari <[email protected]> wrote: > Language features would be available for new, backport-free developments. > Existing code doesn't have to use those features if they would be an issue > during backports. > > 2016-04-07 10:25 GMT+02:00 Davide Giannella <[email protected]>: > >> On 06/04/2016 15:25, Francesco Mari wrote: >> > I was talking about trunk, of course. Developers working in areas where >> > backports are the norm have to carefully consider if and when using Java >> 7 >> > language features would be appropriate. New portions of the codebase >> could >> > use of the new features freely. >> > >> >> We were discussing this on chat. Generally I'd say +1 for trunk but we >> risk to introduce problems for backports. >> >> Davide >> >> >>
