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Re: [egit-dev] [RFC] releases until Mars (June 2015)
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> As we have to declare participation in Mars release train until M4
> (in Dec) we should
> decide which releases we plan until June 2015.
>
> I propose we release
> - 3.6 in Dec 2014
> - 3.7 in late Feb or early March 2015 (before EclipseCon)
> - 4.0 in June 2015
>
> I think it's time for a major version bump to get out API changes
> like
> https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/27325/
> get rid of some long time deprecated API
> and consider discontinuing support for old Java versions, java 5
> maybe even java 6 ?
+1 for requiring Java >= 7 in 4.0. By the time we release 4.0, Oracle's
Java 6 will have been EOL for more than 2 years (since Feb 2013):
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html
Note that even Android supports Java 7 now (since 4.4):
http://stackoverflow.com/a/22303654/305973
> Releasing 4.0 in June would give us some time to prepare these API
> breaking changes.
> If necessary we could prepare these API breaking changes on a
> separate branch.
>
> Opinions ?
