Hello Sean, Thanks for asking.
>From my point of view it Ok to remove Java 7 support from Spark since 2.2 release. But as a lot of users still use java 7 could you please share your vision about bug fix releases for 2.0 and 2.1? About python 2.6 https://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/ Python 2.6 (final) was released on October 1st, 2008. If supporting python 2.6 has any costs I would definitely remove that. Kind regards, Denis On 10 February 2017 at 19:47, Sean Owen <so...@cloudera.com> wrote: > As you have seen, there's a WIP PR to implement removal of Java 7 support: > https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/16871 > > I have heard several +1s at https://issues.apache.org/ > jira/browse/SPARK-19493 but am asking for concerns too, now that there's > a concrete change to review. > > If this goes in for 2.2 it can be followed by more extensive update of the > Java code to take advantage of Java 8; this is more or less the baseline > change. > > We also just removed Hadoop 2.5 support. I know there was talk about > removing Python 2.6. I have no opinion on that myself, but, might be time > to revive that conversation too. > -- //with Best Regards --Denis Bolshakov e-mail: bolshakov.de...@gmail.com
