Let me look into how much work it would take to get accord building with jdk8, that may create the least amount of work for everyone involved.
> On Aug 29, 2022, at 2:42 PM, Ekaterina Dimitrova <e.dimitr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > We will need also Jenkins, cassandra-builds. We need to add also j11 upgrade > tests and fix some other inconsistencies what jobs we run. I have it on my > list and some things partially ready. And I am sure I am missing something. > As I said in Slack, I am not against, just trying to be optimal and creating > less noise when/where it is possible and be efficient so that people on all > ends can progress with whatever they work on. Let’s talk to Mick and put down > the pin-points and assess the plan? How about that? > > On Mon, 29 Aug 2022 at 17:25, Blake Eggleston <beggles...@apple.com > <mailto:beggles...@apple.com>> wrote: > Can you say some more about what extra work you expect removing jdk8 to > cause? I'd expect removing jdk8 to be mostly subtractive (from build.xml and > circleci confs), and jdk17 support to be mostly additive. > > We're getting ready to merge the first set of accord integration patches, and > the accord library requires java11+. My understanding is that jdk17 support > in C* is still several months away, so if we can avoid making one a > dependency on the other, that would be preferable. > > >> On Aug 29, 2022, at 2:01 PM, Brandon Williams <dri...@gmail.com >> <mailto:dri...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> +1 for removing it when we add 17, to avoid making extra work. >> >> Kind Regards, >> Brandon >> >> On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 3:40 PM Blake Eggleston <beggles...@apple.com >> <mailto:beggles...@apple.com>> wrote: >>> >>> Sorry, I meant trunk, not 4.1 :) >>> >>>> On Aug 29, 2022, at 1:09 PM, Blake Eggleston <beggles...@apple.com >>>> <mailto:beggles...@apple.com>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi all, I wanted to propose removing jdk8 support for 4.1. Active support >>>> ended back in March of this year, and I believe the community has built >>>> enough confidence in java 11 to make it an uncontroversial change for our >>>> next major release. Let me know what you think. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> Blake >>> >
