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We like to give Oracle stick (and rightly so) but this is rolling/LTS done right: you break stuff in the release right after the LTS one, to give people time to
by toyg 5y ago
We like to give Oracle stick (and rightly so) but this is rolling/LTS done right: you break stuff in the release right after the LTS one, to give people time to adapt.
- krzyk 5y agoIt was just a coincidence. They do it right: ship when it is ready. LTS is not an openjdk term it is something that vendors might offer for any jdk version.
- toyg 5y ago> LTS is not an openjdk term It's an Oracle term, and I expect the majority of OpenJDK committers and decision-makers are still from Oracle.
- carimura 5y agoLTS was proposed by Mark Reinhold [1] who leads the JDK Project in the OpenJDK community in 2017. There was a lot of discussion [2] that resulted in many vendors supporting and adopting the LTS model. It's a thriving ecosystem (which is great!) but yes, Oracle does contribute a significant portion [3]. [1] https://mreinhold.org/blog/forward-faster https://mreinhold.org/blog/forward-faster [2] https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2017-September/subject.html https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2017-Septemb... [3] https://inside.java/2022/03/22/the-arrival-of-java18/ https://inside.java/2022/03/22/the-arrival-of-java18/
- krzyk 5y agoYeah, but OpenJDK commiters thankfully don't care about it. E.g. look on the things introduced in JDK 16 and JDK 17. LTS is a good gimmick for decision makers in companies, but developers also don't care about it (it is not LTS as in e.g. Ubuntu).