Hotspot Express (HSX)

Ron Pressler ron.pressler at oracle.com
Fri Feb 21 21:28:36 UTC 2020


Major releases took a year to stabilize. The last major release was 9. It was  
released over two years ago. It's stabilized. Feature releases (or "limited
updates," as they were called back then) never took a year to stabilize.

And I think it matters a great deal whether some argument is true or not.  
We're not bystanders. If it's is right, then it shouldn't be and we should 
focus on fixing that. If it's not, then it is our responsibility to help 
people overcome the temporary confusion caused by the change to how we name 
versions and the elimination of major releases, rather than entrench that 
confusion.

- Ron


On 2/19/20, 23:58 PM, "Hohensee, Paul" wrote:

 > Re JSX lack of adoption, the argument is that it's always taken at least
 a year to stabilize a new release, and with 6 months between releases
 none of the non-LTS releases will ever be stable. Doesn't matter whether
 that's true or not, it's what people believe based on previous
 experience with 8 and 11. The relatively large degree of incompatibility
 between 8 and 11 is another hurdle. People remember that and don't want
 to worry about language and library backward compatibility every 6
 months, no matter how small those incompatibilities are. Doing a lot of
 backports is a response to that customer demand. Hotspot is "under the
 covers", so to speak, so HSX was easier to sell than is JSX.

 > Paul





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