HI Team,
I have been analyzing open issues for Apache CSV in Apache Jira (
https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/CSV/issues) to see how I can
contribute.
At this state, I could find 65 open issues. Most of them seem to be at
least 4 to 5 years old and not receiving any comments from the communit
On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 8:28 AM Buddhi De Silva wrote:
>
> HI Team,
>
> Also, some tickets contain the patch files
> provided by the community and some of them seem to be accepted by the
> Apache CSV team but ticket status is Open and unresolved.
> In this case, before I dig into some issues for p
IMO, requiring Java 11 is acceptable, Java 21 is around the corner and Java
8 is EOL anyway.
Gary
On Thu, Aug 24, 2023, 6:34 AM Elliotte Rusty Harold
wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 8:28 AM Buddhi De Silva
> wrote:
> >
> > HI Team,
> >
> > Also, some tickets contain the patch files
> > provid
Java 8 is **not** EOL. It is fully supported by multiple vendors
including Oracle, which has committed to supporting it indefinitely.
Some JDK 8 downloads from Oracle are no longer available without a
support contract. That's all.
Java 8 is in common use at many organizations and in many projects.
Thank you for your quick responses.
If I am summarizing the discussion for a quick conclusion for developers
who are looking to contribute, the following points can be concluded.
1. Bugs are safe to start work on because they are anyway bugs which we
need to look into.
2. Issues marked with improv
