Github user dcelasun commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/thrift/pull/1459
When context support was added, significant effort went into keeping 1.7
compatibility so I think it would be great if we could maintain that support.
On the other hand, this patch can go into 0.12 at the earliest and by that
time 1.7 will be ancient. I haven't reviewed the patch yet, but if you'd like
to drop compatibility, please do so across the codebase (so no more
`x/net/context` anywhere).---
