Hi Raymie, Konst proposed just releasing off of trunk rather than cutting a branch-2, and there was general agreement there. So, consider #3 abandoned. 1&2 can be achieved at the same time, we just need to avoid using JDK8 language features in trunk so things can be backported.
Best, Andrew On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 7:01 PM, Raymie Stata <rst...@altiscale.com> wrote: > In this (and the related threads), I see the following three requirements: > > 1. "Bump the source JDK version to JDK8" (ie, drop JDK7 support). > > 2. "We'll still be releasing 2.x releases for a while, with similar > feature sets as 3.x." > > 3. Avoid the "risk of split-brain behavior" by "minimize backporting > headaches. Pulling trunk > branch-2 > branch-2.x is already tedious. > Adding a branch-3, branch-3.x would be obnoxious." > > These three cannot be achieved at the same time. Which do we abandon? > > > On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 12:45 PM, sanjay Radia <sanjayo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > >> On Mar 5, 2015, at 3:21 PM, Siddharth Seth <ss...@apache.org> wrote: > >> > >> 2) Simplification of configs - potentially separating client side > configs > >> and those used by daemons. This is another source of perpetual confusion > >> for users. > > + 1 on this. > > > > sanjay >
