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When we stop 3.1.x release? #62

Closed KengoTODA closed 5 years ago

KengoTODA commented 5 years ago

Currently spotbugs has two branches: master for 4.x and release-3.1 for 3.1.x. Here I want to discuss when we stop 3.1 release to focus on improvement.

We're providing 3.1.x release to support backward-compatible solution for FindBugs users. I think it is necessary to support long-aged Java projects. However, it also makes bugfix and improvement difficult; for instance https://github.com/spotbugs/spotbugs/issues/28 is not closed even though we spent two years.

The next January is EOL for Java SE 8, so I think it's nice timing to ask long-aged Java projects to migrate to newer solution. Let's consider to release 3.1.12 at the next January, and make it the last release except for vulnerability fix.

Note that we have different issue #17 to discuss about what we do in 4.0 release.

KengoTODA commented 5 years ago

Hi @spotbugs/everyone, do you have your opinion about this topic? :)

henrik242 commented 5 years ago

I think the main focus should be 4.x on jdk11. I haven't done anything on jdk8 for almost a year.

ThrawnCA commented 5 years ago

4.x on JDK 11 makes sense. Anyone sticking to JDK 8 is likely dealing with legacy issues of some kind, and so is less likely to be able to make use of the latest and greatest bug detector.

KengoTODA commented 5 years ago

I'll keep this topic open to discuss for one week later. At Dec/26, if no contributor against, we'll stop 3.1.x release from the next Feb.

KengoTODA commented 5 years ago

@spotbugs/everyone Today is the deadline to collect your opinion, please post if you have any other opinion :)

KengoTODA commented 5 years ago

I'll close this issue. Let's make 3.1.11 and 3.1.12 stable, then focus on 4.0 development later. Thank you!