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Re: [egit-dev] [jgit-dev] [RFC] releases until Mars (June 2015)
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On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Alex Blewitt <alex.blewitt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 9 Oct 2014, at 12:26, Robin Stocker <robin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>> 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):
>
>
> By the time EGit 4.0 comes out even Java 7 will be EOL. I think 7 is a good base but is it worth considering Java 8 as a base instead?
Java 7 will be EOLed by Oracle, but not necessarily by other vendors.
IBM will definitely not EOL Java 7 soon.
Robert
>
> Alex
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