> > 3) Release 4.0 for Java 8, *optionally* branch 4.1 for Java 11 later
This seems like the best of our bad options, with the addition of "optionally". On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 8:12 AM, Gerald Henriksen <ghenr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 04:54:23 +0000, you wrote: > > >I think Michael is right. It would be impossible to make everyone follow > >such a fast release scheme, and supporting it will be pressured onto the > >various distributions, M$ and Apple. > >On the other hand https://adoptopenjdk.net has already done a lot of the > >work and it's already rumoured they may take up backporting of > security/bug > >fixes. I'd fully expect a lot of users to collaborate around this (or > >similar), and there's no reason we couldn't do our part to contribute. > > A posting on Reddit yesterday from someone from adoptopenjdk claimes > that they will be doing LTS releases starting with Java 11, and there > should be updates to their website to reflect that soon: > > https://www.reddit.com/r/java/comments/86ce66/java_long_term_support/ > > So I guess a wait and see to what they commit could be worthwhile. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org > >
