As usual I think maintenance release branches are created ad-hoc when there seems to be some demand. I personally would guess there will be at least one more 2.0.x and 2.1.x maintenance release. In that sense, yeah it's not really even the end of actively supporting a Java 7-compatible release.
On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 7:03 PM Denis Bolshakov <bolshakov.de...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Sean, > > Thanks for asking. > > From my point of view it Ok to remove Java 7 support from Spark since 2.2 > release. > But as a lot of users still use java 7 could you please share your vision > about bug fix releases for 2.0 and 2.1? > > About python 2.6 > https://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/ > Python 2.6 (final) was released on October 1st, 2008. > > If supporting python 2.6 has any costs I would definitely remove that. > > Kind regards, > Denis > > On 10 February 2017 at 19:47, Sean Owen <so...@cloudera.com> wrote: > > As you have seen, there's a WIP PR to implement removal of Java 7 support: > https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/16871 > > I have heard several +1s at > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-19493 but am asking for > concerns too, now that there's a concrete change to review. > > If this goes in for 2.2 it can be followed by more extensive update of the > Java code to take advantage of Java 8; this is more or less the baseline > change. > > We also just removed Hadoop 2.5 support. I know there was talk about > removing Python 2.6. I have no opinion on that myself, but, might be time > to revive that conversation too. > > > > > -- > //with Best Regards > --Denis Bolshakov > e-mail: bolshakov.de...@gmail.com >
