Hi Ismael,
"Are you saying that you are aware of many Kafka users still
using Java 7
> who would be ready to upgrade to the next Kafka feature release (whatever
> that version number is) before they can upgrade to Java 8?"
I know there quite few users who are still on java 7 and regarding the
upgrade we can't say Yes or no. Its upto the user discretion when they
choose to upgrade and ofcourse if there are any critical fixes that
might go into the release. We shouldn't be restricting their upgrade
path just because we removed Java 7 support.
"The 0.10.1 versus 0.11.0.0 is something that can be discussed
separately
> as
> no decision has been made on what the next version will be (we did go
> straight from 0.9.0 to 0.10.0 whereas the 0.8.x series had multiple minor
> releases)"
Once we released 0.9.0 there aren't any 0.8.x releases. i.e we don't
have LTS type release where we continually ship critical fixes over
0.8.x minor releases. So if a user notices a critical fix the only
option today is to upgrade to next version where that fix is shipped.
"no decision has been made on what the next version will be (we did go
> straight from 0.9.0 to 0.10.0 whereas the 0.8.x series had multiple minor
> releases).
I understand there is no decision made yet but given the premise was to
ship this in 0.10.x , possibly 0.10.1 which I don't agree with. In
general against shipping this in 0.10.x version. Removing Java 7 support
when the release is minor in general not a good idea to users.
-Harsha
"Also note that Kafka bug fixes go to 0.10.0.1, not 0.10.1 and
> 0.10.0.x would still be available for users using Java 7."
On Fri, Jun 17, 2016, at 12:18 AM, Ismael Juma wrote:
> Hi Harsha,
>
> Are you saying that you are aware of many Kafka users still using Java 7
> who would be ready to upgrade to the next Kafka feature release (whatever
> that version number is) before they can upgrade to Java 8?
>
> The 0.10.1 versus 0.11.0.0 is something that can be discussed separately
> as
> no decision has been made on what the next version will be (we did go
> straight from 0.9.0 to 0.10.0 whereas the 0.8.x series had multiple minor
> releases). Also note that Kafka bug fixes go to 0.10.0.1, not 0.10.1 and
> 0.10.0.x would still be available for users using Java 7.
>
> Ismael
>
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 12:48 AM, Harsha <ka...@harsha.io> wrote:
>
> > -1 on removing suport 0.10.1.0 . This is minor release and removing
> > support JDK 1.7 which lot of users still depend on not a good idea and
> > definitely they are not getting enough heads up to migrate their other
> > services to JDK1.7.
> > We can consider this for 0.11.0 release time line again depends on the
> > dates .
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Harsha
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 16, 2016, at 03:08 PM, Ismael Juma wrote:
> > > Hi Jan,
> > >
> > > That's interesting. Do you have some references you can share on this? It
> > > would be good to know which Java 8 versions have been tested and whether
> > > it
> > > is something that is being worked on.
> > >
> > > Ismael
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 12:02 AM, <jan.o...@wooga.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi Ismael,
> > > >
> > > > Unfortunately Java 8 doesn't play nice with FreeBSD. We have seen a
> > lot of
> > > > JVM crashes running our 0.9 brokers on Java 8... Java 7 on the other
> > hand
> > > > is totally stable.
> > > >
> > > > Until these issues have been addressed, this would cause some serious
> > > > issues for us.
> > > >
> > > > Regards
> > > >
> > > > Jan
> >
