+1 to stay on 1.7, from another small scale committer. I do not see any compelling reason to upgrade to 1.8, except as Benson says for "minor programming conveniences".
My company would be one of the ones you'd be shutting out if we were on 1.8 now. (Some of our apps upgraded to 1.7 this year.) Of course there is 4.x, but what is 1.8 going to buy 5.x that you're willing to significantly shrink the potential user base? James Dyer Ingram Content Group (615) 213-4311 From: Benson Margulies [mailto:bimargul...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2014 3:45 PM To: dev@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: [VOTE] Move trunk to Java 8 "Corporate overlords" isn't helpful. Lucene is what it is because of its wide adoption. That includes big, small, smart, and stupid organizations. I don't think that an infrastructure component like Lucene needs to be 'ahead of the curve'. It should aim to be widely adoptable. To me, that means moving to a new Java requirement after we observe it is semi-ubiquitous. If 1.8 offered some game-changing JVM feature that would allow a giant leap forward in Lucene, then that would be different. So far, all I see are some minor programming conveniences. However, I'm just one very small scale committer, and I've consumed enough oxygen on this topic.
