FYI: we have a discuss thread over in HBase. I’m curious, any idea how many projects are using these annotations today? Is the only reason we’re discussing dropping this feature the lack of maintenance resources to upgrade to JDK9+? Do we have any other reason for ditching them? What was the motivation for their addition in the first place — Hadoop alone?
On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 12:52 Allen Wittenauer <a...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > On Oct 4, 2021, at 12:50 PM, Allen Wittenauer <a...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > > > > >> On Oct 3, 2021, at 6:35 PM, Akira Ajisaka <aajis...@apache.org> wrote: > >> > >> I'm +1 to drop JDK8 and audience-annotations. > >> > >> FYI: There is a discussion in Apache Hadoop: > >> > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9fef989b8365271b62a48ad61d36bb4fd89beeccf95e276fe6171687%40%3Ccommon-dev.hadoop.apache.org%3E > > > > Based on that thread, it sounds like another approach would be to just > rip out the docket stuff. > > > > But someone is still going to have to do the work; I haven't touched > Java code in years at this point... > > Probably also worth mentioning that if someone does want to take up this > work: don't worry too much about bw compat. We can kill off JDK8 in 0.14 > AFAIC and let anyone needing that version stick with 0.13.
