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[VOTE] Drop Java 5 support for trunk (Lucene 4.0)
Simon Willnauer 2011-06-27, 17:38
This issue has been discussed on various occasions and lately on
LUCENE-3239 (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-3239)

The main reasons for this have been discussed on the issue but let me
put them out here too:

- Lack of testing on Jenkins with Java 5
- Java 5 end of lifetime is reached a long time ago so Java 5 is
totally unmaintained which means for us that bugs have to either be
hacked around, tests disabled, warnings placed, but some things simply
cannot be fixed... we cannot actually "support" something that is no
longer maintained: we do find JRE bugs
(http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/SunJavaBugs) and its important
that bugs actually get fixed: cannot do everything with hacks.\
- due to Java 5 we legitimate performance hits like 20% slower grouping speed.

For reference please read through the issue mentioned above.

A lot of the committers seem to be on the same page here to drop Java
5 support so I am calling out an official vote.

all Lucene 3.x releases will remain with Java 5 support this vote is
for trunk only.
Here is my +1

Simon

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Uwe Schindler 2011-06-27, 17:45
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Robert Muir 2011-06-28, 14:48
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DM Smith 2011-06-28, 21:30
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Simon Willnauer 2011-06-29, 20:36
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Uwe Schindler 2011-06-29, 20:53
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Dawid Weiss 2011-06-27, 17:44
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Steven A Rowe 2011-06-27, 17:46
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Yonik Seeley 2011-06-27, 17:49
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Dawid Weiss 2011-06-27, 18:04
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Mark Miller 2011-06-27, 18:37
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Ryan McKinley 2011-06-27, 19:03
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Jan Høydahl 2011-06-27, 20:42
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Michael McCandless 2011-06-27, 21:29
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Sanne Grinovero 2011-06-27, 22:04
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Chris Male 2011-06-27, 22:10
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Chris Hostetter 2011-06-27, 22:50
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Shai Erera 2011-06-28, 03:17
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Shalin Shekhar Mangar 2011-06-28, 05:29
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Tommaso Teofili 2011-06-28, 12:55