I’m somewhat inclined towards a 3.18 sooner, but I defer to those more
active on the project.
There’s one trivial issue I need to look into based on some Tika work; I’ll
have time to take care of that on Monday.
Cheers,
Tim
On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 12:49 PM Andreas Beeker <kiwiwi...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hi *,
>
> my plan was to wait for commons-compress 1.17 and then release poi 4.0.0.
>
> I'm currently trying to use jigsaw modules and would like rather push
> module refactoring for jigsaw
> than backporting stuff, but if you list the bugzilla issue for a 3.X
> maintenance release I'm happy to merge those.
>
> I'm not really into android development, but I guess providing android /
> Java 9+ compatibility [1] are diametrically opposed goals, right? So we
> might need to backport stuff anyways for a while ...
>
> Andi
>
>
> [1]
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47627499/does-android-studio-3-support-java-9-for-android-development
> https://developer.android.com/studio/write/java8-support
>
>
> On 5/4/18 11:23 AM, Nick Burch wrote:
> > Hi All
> >
> > We released 3.17 back in September, which is over 6 months ago. The
> changelog <http://poi.apache.org/changes.html> says we've done quite a bit
> > since then
> >
> > What do we think about another release? Do a 3.18, then breaking changes
> for 4.0 afterwards to release that in the summer? Or just finish stuff up
> and push 4.0 out soon?
> >
> > Nick
> >
>
>
>
