Re: [VOTE] Avro release 1.8.0 (rc1)

I intended it to be the usual minimum of 72 hours - so by Monday. However, if folks think that we need to extend it due to the holiday period, then we can do that. Tom On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 1:04 AM, Sean Busbey wrote: > what's the voting period on this RC? > > On Wed,

Re: [VOTE] Avro release 1.8.0 (rc1)

+1 * Set the Maven staging as a repo on my system. * Updated several of my projects that rely heavily on AVRO to use the 1.8.0 version. * Rebuild and ran all the unit tests on those projects; all passed without incident On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 6:55 PM, Tom White wrote: > I

Re: [DISCUSS] Migrate to Java 7

+1 Tom On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 1:08 AM, Ryan Blue wrote: > I just noticed that our tests are still compiling and running with Java 6. > Java 7 is already end-of-life (public patches at least), so I think it is > reasonable to start migrating. Is everyone okay with updating the

Re: [DISCUSS] Migrate to Java 7

+1 On 18 Dec 2015 12:33, "Tom White" wrote: > +1 > > Tom > > On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 1:08 AM, Ryan Blue wrote: > > > I just noticed that our tests are still compiling and running with Java > 6. > > Java 7 is already end-of-life (public patches at least), so I

[DISCUSS][JAVA] Generating toBytes/fromBytes methods?

Hi, I'm working on a project where I'm putting Avro records into Kafka and at the other end pull them out again. For that purpose I wrote two methods 'toBytes' and 'fromBytes' in a separate class (see below). I see this as the type of problem many developers run into. Would it be a good idea to

Re: [DISCUSS] Migrate to Java 7

I would agree, but unfortunately Java 8 features required bytecode changes and Java 8 can't be compiled to target Java 7. There is a good summary of it a few answers down on this SO question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16143684/can-java-8-code-be-compiled-to-run-on-java-7-jvm I

Re: [DISCUSS] Migrate to Java 7

this would be after 1.8, right? sounds reasonable, but we should send a [DISCUSS] for impact to user@avro after the new year to gauge impact on downstream before we decide. On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 7:08 PM, Ryan Blue wrote: > I just noticed that our tests are still compiling