On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 08:13:52PM +0200, Ismael Juma wrote: > Hi Harsha, > > Comments below. > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 7:48 PM, Harsha <ka...@harsha.io> wrote: > > > 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 > > > This is good to know. > > > > 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. > > >
I agree with this as well - I've actually seen performance degredation in some use-cases with Java8 vs Java7 on both CentOS and FreeBSD. IMHO - removing support for JRE7 as part of a minor release would be very disruptive and I would personally prefer to see this happen as part of a major release (0.11 for example). Cheers, -pete -- Pete Wright Lead Systems Architect Rubicon Project pwri...@rubiconproject.com 310.309.9298
