Sergio, can you share Apache Hive experience with this issue? Thanks,
- Alex On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 1:10 PM, Sergio Pena <sergio.p...@cloudera.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > This thread discussion is a follow-up to the old thread related to > supporting JDK8 and Datanucleus 4 as the minimum version for Sentry 2.0. > This is dedicated to discuss whether we should allow using JDK8 specific > features (such as lambda functions and other useful API) in Sentry. > > Advantages are that we could start using these cool features that come in > JDK8 and forget about JDK7 for all. > > Disadvantages are that doing backports on older releases and/or allowing > other companies backporting fixes from Sentry 2.x will make these backports > harder because JDK7 is still in use. > > Maintenance releases are not active but companies are still pretty active > on Sentry. > > Questions to answer: > - What should we do? > - If we decide to keep JDK7 compatibility, how long should we keep this > until we move completely to JDK8? > > In my opinion, companies will always be outdated with what we do as an > Apache community. Taking a look at what we are doing with SentryHA > redesign, this is a breaking change for companies too because fixes on this > new design may not work for other companies and/or the backports could be > harder. > > However, the current Sentry 2.0 has been active with JDK7 as the support, > and users active on 2.0 may be using JDK7 environments only. > > So, > Should we wait until Sentry 2.1 or newer releases to allow JDK8 features? > Should we start in Sentry 2.0? > > Any thoughts? > > - Sergio >
