Java 8 premier support ends on March 2022. At that point, AFAIK, we absolutely need to be on a newer version of Java. The only Java component we have (really) left is audience-annotations. I believe building doclet support has been broken since JDK9. If no one is willing to step up and make the builds work, then I think we should drop JDK8 from the docker image and audience-annotations from the source tree.
Thoughts?