On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 8:37 AM, Jan Høydahl <[email protected]> wrote:

> Rob, in my view, what's best for Lucene as a project is tightly linked to 
> what's best for its users. And the users tend do be corporate. I think users 
> are so important that we should even consider rolling a bugfix-release from 
> the 4.7 branch after 4.8 is released, if there is sufficient user demand for 
> it. I hope we'll see trunk on Java8 before summer, but *today* is a tad too 
> aggressive :)
>

Not our trunk. Trunk is *all about developers*. Users are unimportant there.

Valid reasons for not wanting to move trunk to java 8? "I'm concerned
about the stability of IDE support for java 8". "I'm worried there are
not enough best-practices/publications to prevent the codebase from
going crazy", etc

Invalid reasons for not wanting to move trunk to java 8? Corporate
policies, production policies, anything about production whatsoever.

Trunk is intentionally supposed to be separate from the stable branch
for reasons like this.  It should only be limited by our imagination.

When making votes like this, please do what you think is best for the
open source project, instead of what you think is best for your
corporation.

I'm +1 for both proposals myself. But i think its also ok to wait a
month or so after java8 release before moving trunk to it, to see what
the adoption is like.

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