Yeah, you are right :) I'll put something in my calendar for end of May. On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 12:12 PM, Greg Hogan <c...@greghogan.com> wrote:
> Robert, > > Thanks for the report. Shouldn’t we be revisiting this decision at the > beginning of the new release cycle rather than near the end? There is > currently little cost to staying with Java 7 since no Flink code or pull > requests have been written for Java 8. > > Greg > > > > On Mar 23, 2017, at 6:37 AM, Robert Metzger <rmetz...@apache.org> wrote: > > Looks like 9% on twitter and 24% on the mailing list are still using Java > 7. > > I would vote to keep supporting Java 7 for Flink 1.3 and then revisit once > we are approaching 1.4 in September. > > On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 8:00 AM, Bowen Li <bowen...@offerupnow.com> wrote: > >> There's always a tradeoff we need to make. I'm in favor of upgrading to >> Java 8 to bring in all new Java features. >> >> The common way I've seen (and I agree) other software upgrading major >> things like this is 1) upgrade for next big release without backward >> compatibility and notify everyone 2) maintain and patch current, old-tech >> compatible version at a reasonably limited scope. Building backward >> compatibility is too much for an open sourced project >> >> >> >> On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 7:10 AM, Robert Metzger <rmetz...@apache.org> >> wrote: >> >>> I've put it also on our Twitter account: >>> https://twitter.com/ApacheFlink/status/842015062667755521 >>> >>> On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 2:19 PM, Martin Neumann <martin.neum...@ri.se> >>> wrote: >>> >>> > I think this easier done in a straw poll than in an email conversation. >>> > I created one at: http://www.strawpoll.me/12535073 >>> > (Note that you have multiple choices.) >>> > >>> > >>> > Though I prefer Java 8 most of the time I have to work on Java 7. A >>> lot of >>> > the infrastructure I work on still runs Java 7, one of the companies I >>> > build a prototype for a while back just updated to Java 7 2 years ago. >>> I >>> > doubt we can ditch Java 7 support any time soon if we want to make it >>> easy >>> > for companies to use Flink. >>> > >>> > cheers Martin >>> > >>> > //PS sorry if this gets sent twice, we just migrated to a new mail >>> system >>> > and a lot of things are broken >>> > >>> > ________________________________ >>> > From: Stephan Ewen <se...@apache.org> >>> > Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2017 12:30:24 PM >>> > To: user@flink.apache.org; d...@flink.apache.org >>> > Subject: [POLL] Who still uses Java 7 with Flink ? >>> > >>> > Hi all! >>> > >>> > I would like to get a feeling how much Java 7 is still being used among >>> > Flink users. >>> > >>> > At some point, it would be great to drop Java 7 support and make use of >>> > Java 8's new features, but first we would need to get a feeling how >>> much >>> > Java 7 is still used. >>> > >>> > Would be happy if users on Java 7 respond here, or even users that have >>> > some insights into how widespread they think Java 7 still is. >>> > >>> > Thanks, >>> > Stephan >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> >> >> > >
