Re:Java 18 / JDK 18: General Availability
by toyg on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @11:55AM
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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 adapt.
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It 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.
> 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.
Re:Java 18 / JDK 18: General Availability
by carimura on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @07:36PM
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LTS 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 [2] https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2017-Septemb... [3] https://inside.java/2022/03/22/the-arrival-of-java18/
Yeah, 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).