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Re: [jgit-dev] [egit-dev] [RFC] releases until Mars (June 2015)

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?

Alex

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