> Second, bumping the source and target JDK version to JDK8 (related to > HADOOP-11090), which is important since JDK7 is EOL in April 2015 (two > months from now). In the past, we've had issues with our dependencies > discontinuing support for old JDKs, so this will future-proof us.
Is moving to JDK8 fundamentally different from the move to JDK7? We are moving to JDK7 via release 2.7 that I am helping with now. > I'd like to propose that we start rolling a series of monthly-ish series of > 3.0 alpha releases ASAP, with myself volunteering to take on the RM and > other cat herding responsibilities. There are already quite a few changes > slated for 3.0 besides the above (for instance the shell script rewrite) so > there's already value in a 3.0 alpha, and the more time we give downstreams > to integrate, the better. Aren't the shell script rewrite changes supposed to be compatible? Thanks, +Vinod
