Kevin - do you care to propose a concrete release number? -=Bill
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Kevin Sweeney <kevi...@apache.org> wrote: > Adopting Java8 syntax would get us significant gains in productivity and > code readability. > > Using JRE8 in production should get us some significant performance gains, > though how significant would require performance benchmarks. > > IMO our target platform is 3-5 servers per Mesos cluster and we shouldn't > consider it an operational burden to install the currently-supported > version of the JRE. > > So I'm +1 to adopting JDK8, and soon. > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Bill Farner <wfar...@apache.org> wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > JDK 8 was officially released in March 2014, and brought a bunch of new > > features to the runtime and compiler. A side-effect of using java 8 > > language features is that it requires a >= 1.8 runtime, This means users > > currently running the scheduler with java 1.7 would need to upgrade their > > JRE. We have a ticket [1] to track adopting JDK 8 on our end. > > > > Does anyone have an opinion on which release we should aim to include > this > > change in, if at all? > > > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AURORA-274 > > > > > > -=Bill > > >
