+1 (binding)
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 3:26 AM, Ismael Juma <ism...@juma.me.uk> 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
