I've checked on other projects, and both Hadoop, HBase and Solr dropped their JDK6 support in the last few month.
The process they used in Hadoop was: 1. Announce that a specific release is the last one with JDK6 support (2.6 for Hadoop) 2. Allowed contributors from companies that plan to stay on JDK6 to push all the features they need to that release (so these companies will have time to shift off JDK6 before they need to upgrade for new features) 3. Stopped testing on JDK6 Does that sound like a good transition plan for Kafka too? Gwen On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 8:54 AM, Joe Stein <joe.st...@stealth.ly> wrote: > Lets have a KIP for removing JDK 6 support (on another thread) as it would > make for a good discussion and something we should be able to come to > closure on as a dependency for this and other patches that would favor it > happening. > > ~ Joe Stein > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > http://www.stealth.ly > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Harsha <ka...@harsha.io> wrote: > > > > > Thanks for the review Gwen. I'll keep in mind about java 6 support. > > -Harsha > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015, at 03:28 PM, Gwen Shapira wrote: > > > Looks good. Thanks for working on this. > > > > > > One note, the Channel implementation from SSL only works on Java7 and > up. > > > Since we are still supporting Java 6, I'm working on a lighter wrapper > > > that > > > will be a composite on SocketChannel but will not extend it. Perhaps > > > you'll > > > want to use that. > > > > > > Looking forward to the patch! > > > > > > Gwen > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Harsha <m...@harsha.io> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > Here is the initial proposal for sasl/kerberos implementation for > > > > kafka https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/YI4WAw > > > > and JIRA https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1686. I am > > > > currently working on prototype which will add more details to the > KIP. > > > > Just opening the thread to say the work is in progress. I'll update > the > > > > thread with a initial prototype patch. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Harsha > > > > > > >
