+1 on dropping 1.6 support from 0.8.0 onwards. @Mohammad, Hadoop is dropping support for 1.6 from 2.7.0 onwards. I am guessing other ecosystem projects will soon follow suit.
— Hitesh On May 15, 2015, at 2:16 PM, Mohammad Islam <misla...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi Sid, > What are the statuses of other Hadoop projects? > > Overall, I'm +1 on this. > Regards, > Mohammad > > > > On Friday, May 15, 2015 10:57 AM, Siddharth Seth <ss...@apache.org> wrote: > > > Java 6 support ended quite a while ago. Trying to support it gets in the way > of using libraries which may work with Java 7 only (Netty for example in > TEZ-2450). I think we should move Tez 0.8 to work with Java 7 as the minimum > version. Thoughts ? > > Thanks > - Sid > >