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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