a) 4.0 b) JDK 1.7 JDK 1.8 might be an acceptance killer for Apache Tika, one of our major consumers, as Tika still compiles on JDK 1.7. It makes sense to drop a line to @tika-dev and confirm it.
c) yes On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 2:06 AM, Andreas Beeker <kiwiwi...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to add a note to the final announcement about the JDK change and > link a vote thread to it. > > We've discussed about Java 7 [4], but as a few projects around us already > have > switched to Java 8 [1], I want an official vote about Java 7/8. > As I anticipate a bit of controversy on this, I want to discuss first and > then > have a separate vote thread to be linked to from the announcement. > > Up till now I have 3 questions to vote - > is there anything else, we should vote on for version 4.0? > For the sake of simplicity, they aren't in the -1/0/1 response format. > > > a) Is the next version 4.0 or do we have a 3.18? > b) Which will be the next Java SE 7 or 8? > > The guidelines [2] are actually clear about this, but I'll ask that anyway: > c) Will you join an opposing majority? > > > Here are my votes: > a) 4.0 > b) JDK8 > c) yes > > > Regarding b) > As we have a major break here and Java 7 is already at EOL [3], I'd like to > use the opportunity to fast forward. When I look through a few > rendering/AWT > related bugs which occur in Java 6, I often see those are only fixed in > Java 8. > I have the impression, that dependent libraries/products either are > dependent on > older features and therefore can stick with 3.17 ... or they have already a > current Java 8 compatible version out. > > To make up you mind, check [5] for a different stance on EOL/upgrading. > For a quantitative list of POI dependencies check [6] > > Andi > > > [1] > http://ant.apache.org/antnews.html#Apache Ant 1.9.8 and 1.10.0 > http://apache-xml-project.6118.n7.nabble.com/Java-2-1-0- > release-td43800.html > [2] https://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html > [3] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html > [4] http://apache-poi.1045710.n5.nabble.com/Java-6-support-td5721373.html > [5] https://spring.io/blog/2015/04/01/ongoing-support-for- > java-7-and-even-java-6 > [6] https://github.com/centic9/github-version-statistics > > >
