Ok, then let’s release 4.8 using Java 7 as minimum requirement! Both is fine to me. I just want Java 6 go away!
----- Uwe Schindler H.-H.-Meier-Allee 63, D-28213 Bremen <http://www.thetaphi.de/> http://www.thetaphi.de eMail: u...@thetaphi.de From: Robert Muir [mailto:rcm...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2014 1:35 PM To: dev@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Release Lucene 5? Sorry, but I disagree. We shouldn't release a new major version for arbitrary reasons. Meanwhile the 4.x releases keep getting better, maybe it could go to 4.12 or 4.15 before 4.x runs out of steam. On Mar 8, 2014 6:27 AM, "Uwe Schindler" <u...@thetaphi.de> wrote: Hi all, Java 8 will get released (hopefully, but I trust the release plan!) on March 18, 2014. Because of this, lots of developers will move to Java 8, too. This makes maintaining 3 versions for developing Lucene 4.x not easy anymore (unless you have cool JAVA_HOME "cmd" launcher scriptsusing StEXBar available for your Windows Explorer - or similar stuff in Linux). I think we should release Lucene 5 with Java 7 as minimum requirement quite soon - I could act as release manager. Unfortunately we have not many new features (as most stuff was backported, breaking backwards compatibility), but we should really work on releasing it. In my opinion, Java 7 minimum requirement is a good reason for a major version bump. I don't think we should add another 4.x release series! I would prefer to move branch_4x to the attic and disable its Jenkins builds. This would also allow to remove support for crazy JRockit, because there is no longer JRockit for Java 7. Uwe ----- Uwe Schindler H.-H.-Meier-Allee 63, D-28213 Bremen http://www.thetaphi.de eMail: u...@thetaphi.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
