Re: [DISCUSS] 2.9+ stabilization branch

2018-02-27 Thread Andrew Wang
Hi Konst and all, Is there a list of 3.0 specific upgrade concerns that you could share? I understand that a new major release comes with risk simply due to the amount of code change, but we've done our best as a community to alleviate these concerns through much improved integration testing and

Re: [DISCUSS] 2.9+ stabilization branch

2018-02-27 Thread Konstantin Shvachko
Thanks Subru for initiating the thread about GPU support. I think the path of taking 2.9 as a base for 2.10 and adding new resource types into it is quite reasonable. That way we can combine stabilization effort on 2.9 with GPUs. Arun, upgrading Java is probably a separate topic. We should

Re: [DISCUSS] 2.9+ stabilization branch

2018-02-27 Thread Andrew Wang
Hi Arun/Subru, Bumping the minimum Java version is a major change, and incompatible for users who are unable to upgrade their JVM version. We're beyond the EOL for Java 7, but as we know from our experience with Java 6, there are plenty of users who stick on old Java versions. Bumping the Java