[RESULT][VOTE] Drop support for JDK 6 from Pig 0.14

[Rohini Palaniswamy <ro...@gmail.com>]

My +1 as well.

With 6 binding +1s, 5 non-binding +1s and no -1s this vote passes.

Created PIG-4210 to take care of the build changes for that.

Regards,
Rohini

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Ashutosh Chauhan <ha...@apache.org>
wrote:

> +1
>
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 7:02 PM, Daniel Dai <da...@hortonworks.com> wrote:
>
> > +1
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 8:43 AM, Cheolsoo Park <pi...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > +1
> > >
> > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 6:52 AM, Alan Gates <ga...@hortonworks.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >> +1.
> > >>
> > >> Alan.
> > >>
> > >>   Rohini Palaniswamy <ro...@gmail.com>
> > >>  September 16, 2014 at 21:47
> > >> Hi,
> > >> Hadoop is dropping support for JDK6 from hadoop-2.7 this year as
> > >> mentioned in the mail below. Pig should also move to JDK7 to be able
> to
> > >> compile against future hadoop 2.x releases and start making releases
> > with
> > >> jars (binaries, maven repo) compiled in JDK 7. This would also open it
> > up
> > >> for developers to code with JDK7 specific APIs.
> > >>
> > >> Vote closes on Tuesday, Sep 23 2014.
> > >>
> > >> Thanks,
> > >> Rohini
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > >> From: Arun C Murthy <ac...@hortonworks.com> <ac...@hortonworks.com>
> > >> Date: Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 10:52 AM
> > >> Subject: Dropping support for JDK6 in Apache Hadoop
> > >> To: "dev@hbase.apache.org" <de...@hbase.apache.org> <
> dev@hbase.apache.org
> > >
> > >> <de...@hbase.apache.org>, dev@hive.apache.org,
> > >> dev@pig.apache.org, dev@oozie.apache.org
> > >> Cc: "common-dev@hadoop.apache.org" <co...@hadoop.apache.org>
> > >> <co...@hadoop.apache.org> <co...@hadoop.apache.org>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> [Apologies for the wide distribution.]
> > >>
> > >> Dear HBase/Hive/Pig/Oozie communities,
> > >>
> > >> We, over at Hadoop are considering dropping support for JDK6 this
> year.
> > >>
> > >> As you maybe aware we just released hadoop-2.5.0 and are now
> considering
> > >> making the next release i.e. hadoop-2.6.0 the *last* release of Apache
> > >> Hadoop which supports JDK6. This means, from hadoop-2.7.0 onwards we
> > will
> > >> not support JDK6 anymore and we *may* start relying on JDK7-specific
> > apis.
> > >>
> > >> Now, the above releases a proposal and we do not want to pull the
> > trigger
> > >> without talking to projects downstream - hence the request for you
> > >> feedback.
> > >>
> > >> Please feel free to forward this to other communities you might deem
> to
> > be
> > >> at risk from this too.
> > >>
> > >> thanks,
> > >> Arun
> > >>
> > >>
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