need strategy for java level compiliance

[Marshall Schor <ms...@schor.com>]

Java 9 is now obsolete; Java 10 is the current version.

See http://blog.joda.org/, scroll down to article "Monday, 5 February 2018, 
Java 9 has six weeks to live" 

Announcement email:
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/announce/2018-March/000247.html

Long Term Support versions of Java are 8, 11, ...; maybe we should be
sufficiently happy to "sync" with those (every 1 1/2 years).

-Marshall

Re: need strategy for java level compiliance

[Richard Eckart de Castilho <re...@apache.org>]

Sounds good with respect to changing the target level for the compiler
every now and then... but I think it would be good to ensure that
we can actually build and run on current versions, not only LTS versions.

I hope that after some initial rough period, transitions between
the 6-monthly releases will be smoother.

-- Richard

> On 29.03.2018, at 12:27, Marshall Schor <ms...@schor.com> wrote:
> 
> Java 9 is now obsolete; Java 10 is the current version.
> 
> See http://blog.joda.org/, scroll down to article "Monday, 5 February 2018, 
> Java 9 has six weeks to live" 
> 
> Announcement email:
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/announce/2018-March/000247.html
> 
> Long Term Support versions of Java are 8, 11, ...; maybe we should be
> sufficiently happy to "sync" with those (every 1 1/2 years).