Thanks Sravan for confirming all that. I have requested a JustJ release for Java 16 as it seems inappropriate to ship the EPP with Java 15 in light of your comments. See https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=573734#c4
Jonah ~~~ Jonah Graham Kichwa Coders www.kichwacoders.com On Mon, 24 May 2021 at 23:36, Sravan K Lakkimsetti <sravankum...@in.ibm.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > > Java 16 was supposed to be target platform for 4.20 release. We stopped > using Java15 in our testing from M1 itself. In the supported platform we > should have made it clear in the first version itself. > > Last week when I am creating freeze plan, I noticed this and updated the > targeted java versions. Sorry for not updating the commit message. > > > > Please note: Going forward, Platform will drop support for java versions > as soon as they go out of support by OpenJDK unless the version id declared > as LTS by Oracle. > > > > Thanks and Regards, > Sravan > > Sravan Kumar Lakkimsetti > IBM India Pvt Ltd, > Embassy Golf Links Business Park, C Block, > Off Indiranagar-Kormangla Inner Ring Road, > Bangalore - 560071, India > > > > *From:* Jonah Graham <jo...@kichwacoders.com> > *Sent:* 25 May 2021 04:00 > *To:* Eclipse platform general developers list. <platform-dev@eclipse.org> > *Subject:* [EXTERNAL] [platform-dev] How do I track Eclipse Project Plan > changes > > > > Hi folks, > > > > As part of my release planning for EPP I looked at Java 16 support earlier > in the dev cycle. As of now JustJ has not made a Java 16 release available > - there is a milestone[1]. > > > > As part of that conversation I consulted the 4.20 project plan[2] (around > M2 date) and Java 16 was not part of the target environment. > > > > Last week, Java 16 was added (and Java 15 was removed).[3] The git commit > message does not reference a bug, nor contain any information about the > change (the commit message is just about aarch64 change). > > > > Going forward I have a question - how do I track changes in the Eclipse > Project Plan? Do I subscribe to gerrit notifications? Is there a better > source of truth? I suppose I should have known that 4.20 was going to have > Java 16 at target environment, but now a couple of days before EPP M3 I am > considering changing to Java 16 and I am not sure what to do. > > > > Any thoughts? > > > > BTW I think releasing the IDE bundled with the latest Java instead of LTS > Java is a mistake that I will take up with the Eclipse IDE WG and the > Eclipse Planning Council. With the current plan we are shipping EOL Java > versions with Eclipse IDE as alternating IDE releases are lined up to the > Java release EOL date (really they are lined up to the new Java releases, > but that date is the same for non-LTS). > > > > Thanks > > Jonah > > > > > > [1] https://www.eclipse.org/lists/justj-dev/msg00023.html > > [2] > https://www.eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?planurl=http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/plans/eclipse_project_plan_4_20.xml > > [3] https://git.eclipse.org/r/c/www.eclipse.org/eclipse/+/180723 > > > ~~~ > Jonah Graham > Kichwa Coders > www.kichwacoders.com > > _______________________________________________ > platform-dev mailing list > platform-dev@eclipse.org > To unsubscribe from this list, visit > https://www.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/platform-dev >
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