+1 (non-binding) On Friday, July 17, 2015, Stevo Slavić <ssla...@gmail.com> wrote:
> +1 (non-binding) > > On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Ismael Juma <ism...@juma.me.uk > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I would like to start a vote on dropping support for Scala 2.9 for the > next > > release. People seemed to be in favour of the idea in previous > discussions: > > > > * http://search-hadoop.com/m/uyzND1uIW3k2fZVfU1 > > * http://search-hadoop.com/m/uyzND1KMLNK11Rmo72 > > > > Summary of why we should drop Scala 2.9: > > > > * Doubles the number of builds required from 2 to 4 (2.9.1 and 2.9.2 are > > not binary compatible). > > * Code has been committed to trunk that doesn't build with Scala 2.9 > weeks > > ago and no-one seems to have noticed or cared (well, I filed > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-2325). Can we really > support a > > version if we don't test it? > > * New clients library is written in Java and won't be affected. It also > has > > received a lot of work and it's much improved since the last release. > > * It was released 4 years ago, it has been unsupported for a long time > and > > most projects have dropped support for it (for example, we use a > different > > version of ScalaTest for Scala 2.9) > > * Scala 2.10 introduced Futures and a few useful features like String > > interpolation and value classes. > > * Doesn't work with Java 8 ( > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-2203 > > ). > > > > The reason not to drop it is to maintain compatibility for people stuck > in > > 2.9 who also want to upgrade both client and broker to the next Kafka > > release. > > > > The vote will run for 72 hours. > > > > +1 (non-binding) from me. > > > > Best, > > Ismael > > > -- Ashish 🎤h
