On Sep 19, 2014, at 10:23 AM, Yonik Seeley <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 7:14 AM, Grant Ingersoll <[email protected]> wrote: >> People will upgrade when >> the new features they want in the latest release outweigh the mythical pain >> of upgrading a JDK. > > Perhaps the technical pain of upgrade is largely mythical, but it's > real pain for real users who have no say over what version of Java > they can run (or at a minimum have to jump through a lot of hoops to > change the java version). Fully well aware of this, but trunk is not, by definition released, so there is nothing for them to upgrade to. > > There is no right answer... it's a judgement call where we should > weigh all the factors each time we require a new Java version. People > may weigh factors differently, but no factor should be dismissed out > of hand. Of course not, just saying I personally think trunk should move forward as fast as the regular contributors and committers want, which means, we decide/vote and then move on based on the outcome and that the branches (4x or 5x or whatever) should be slower to make any changes. People who take years to upgrade their JDK also likely take years to upgrade Lucene or Solr or whatever. I'm all for keeping and maintaining older branches for those who don't want to upgrade as long as the community is willing to support them. As for Doug's comments, I think they reflect a time when we only maintained one branch and it was more of a forced decision for users. It isn't as cut and dried anymore with multiple branches, services like Solr and ES, etc. I do agree, wholeheartedly however, that we should all be thoughtful and considerate of other's opinions in the process. -Grant --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
