Hello everyone,
Bumping the topic up with an update.
The changes that include the import order reorganization are ready for review:
https://github.com/apache/cassandra/pull/2108
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-17925
The changes have been divided into two commits. The first commit
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> For the rare edge case where we have to stop supporting something entirely
>> because it's incompatible with a JDK release (has this happened more than
>> the 1 time?) - I think a reasonable fallback is to just not backport new
>> JDK support and consider carrying forward the older JDK su