> > [.] Move Lucene/Solr 4.8 (means branch_4x) to Java 7 and backport all Java > 7-related issues (FileChannel improvements, diamond operator,...). >
+1 totally! > [.] Move Lucene/Solr trunk to Java 8 and allow closures in source code. > This would make some APIs much nicer. Our infrastructure mostly supports > this, only ECJ Javadoc linting is not yet possible, but forbidden-apis > supports Java 8 with all its crazy new stuff. > -1 (right now) -- Anshum Gupta http://www.anshumgupta.net
