[che-dev] Dev process

[Sergii Kabashniuk <skabashnyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello.

Some small news in our dev process.

1. With our new faster release schema we would like to introduce new annotation on our public REST API and SPI. 

   http://docs.guava-libraries.googlecode.com/git/javadoc/com/google/common/annotations/Beta.html It has the same meaning as it have in guava

2. We would like to declare that we want to use Java 8 in our development (at least for 4.x) because EOL of Java 7. Our road map is following.

    1. We set Java 8 required to build 4.0. With compile source and target for Java 7

    2. In several weeks we will set up Java 8 as runtime enviroment for 4.0.0

    3. If we  do not receive any blockers from our testing enviroment for 4.0.0 we start thinking about moving to Java 8 for 3.x.

       It shouldn't happen closer then 1-1,5 from step 2.

Sergii Kabashniuk