On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Nicolas Liochon <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ok Enis I like the definition you put in the thread. > > Dropping support explicitly means that we stop building against > JDK6 in jenkins, and won't try to fix issues if they are jdk6 only. Release > testing and unit tests are done on jdk7. > > And it implies; we may start to use 1.7 specific features. > > With this definition: > 1) Do we drop support for JDK6 in .98 > That's an easy -1, it would mean that you'd need to upgrade Java in order to get HBase bug fixes :) > 2) Do we drop support for JDK6 in 1.0 > > Does anyone think we need to discuss this or can we start a vote on this? > If there is no objection I will start the vote thread in an hour or two. > > Cheers, > > N. > > > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 8:14 PM, Enis Söztutar <[email protected]> wrote: > > > See the thread: > > > > > > > https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hbase-dev/201404.mbox/%3CCAMUu0w_KgwTLWkTc3W85H4yYuDSaEn=Ncf7ziRhhMZ=hfod...@mail.gmail.com%3E > > > > There was no conclusion in that thread. But it should be ok to start a > VOTE > > I guess. > > > > Enis > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Andrew Purtell <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > Er, I mean no user should be running on a runtime less than 7, they are > > all > > > EOL... > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Andrew Purtell <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Nicolas Liochon <[email protected]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > >> Should we be 1.7 only for trunk / 1.0? > > > >> This would mean using the 1.7 features. > > > >> > > > > > > > > I think this is prudent. Hadoop common is having a similar discussion > > and > > > > I think converging on consensus that they would be ok with their > trunk > > > > including features only available in 7. > > > > > > > > > > > >> What about .98? > > > >> > > > > > > > > I don't think this is an option, because although no user should be > > > > running with a 7 runtime (and in fact performance conscious users > > should > > > be > > > > looking hard at 8), vendors will still have to support customers on > 6. > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Best regards, > > > > > > > > - Andy > > > > > > > > Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet > > Hein > > > > (via Tom White) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Best regards, > > > > > > - Andy > > > > > > Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet > Hein > > > (via Tom White) > > > > > >
