On Sat, Nov 8, 2025 at 8:24 PM PJ Fanning <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't personally believe that we need to port everything from Akka > releases as they become available under the Apache license. I would > prefer to concentrate on bug fixes and test coverage. Enhancements if > people want them but I don't think we should grab them without > evidence they are wanted by Pekko users. > > Once Pekko 2.0.0 is out, I don't think we should continue to take Akka > changes over to 1.x unless they fix critical bugs - that they should > only go into 2.x in normal circumstances. > I much agree. Kind regards, Arnout > There is a reasonable chance that Akka 2.8.0 changes will become > Apache licensed before we get to release Pekko 2.0.0. But maybe, it > might focus our minds to get 2.0.0 complete before then. We could then > just add Akka 2.8.0 stuff in a Pekko 2.x release. > > On Sat, 8 Nov 2025 at 20:08, kerr <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I see, but if we want to support 1.4.0, then we will have much to port, > eg, > > Akka 2.8.0 needs to be ported to Pekko 1.4.x too . > > And we don't have the same setup, eg, sortImports, Scala versions, Java > > formatter, and Scala formatter, etc., which causes cherry picking a huge > > burden. > > While porting recently, I had to do many manual sortings to make the code > > work with 1.3.x > > > > 何品 > > > > > > PJ Fanning <[email protected]> 于2025年11月9日周日 01:43写道： > > > > > 1.x releases will support Java 8. > > > I'm not going to guess what sort of 1.x releases we will need but we > > > will continue to do 1.x releases including some small enhancements > > > until 2.0.0 full release happens. After 2.0.0 is out, I think it is > > > fairly likely that we will only fix bugs in 1.x and this will likely > > > mean only occasional patch releases. > > > We could easily end up with 1.3.1 or 1.4.0 releases and possibly > beyond. > > > > > > On Sat, 8 Nov 2025 at 14:37, kerr <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Is Pekko 1.3.0 the last release that we plan to support Java 8? > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- Arnout Engelen ASF Security Response Apache Pekko PMC member, ASF Member NixOS Committer Independent Open Source consultant
