[cle-release-team] Java 6 vs Java 7 - was Re: [sakai2-tcc] Emerging consensus to focus on 2.10

[Beth Kirschner]

Java 6 is past end-of-life (http://java.com/en/download/faq/java_6.xml), so I think we should move up to Java 7.

- Beth

On Sep 9, 2013, at 12:01 PM, Neal Caidin <neal.caidin at apereo.org> wrote:

> Does the majority (CLE/ TCC)  think it is the right time to have our QA servers move to Java 7?
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> Thanks,
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> Neal Caidin
> Sakai CLE Community Coordinator
> neal.caidin at apereo.org
> Skype: nealkdin
> Twitter: ncaidin
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> On Sep 9, 2013, at 11:17 AM, "Mark J. Norton" <markjnorton at earthlink.net> wrote:
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>> At the very least, we should be testing against Java 7 - superficially, if not more.
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>> - Mark
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>> On 9/9/2013 10:37 AM, Aaron Zeckoski wrote:
>>> It would probably take the industry generally moving to java 7 which
>>> they are not really doing yet. When we see people dropping java 6
>>> support we can review this but for now we should support both 6 and 7.
>>> We could probably change the recommendation to 7 if a majority prefers
>>> that and it matches what we are using on the QA servers.
>>> -AZ
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>>> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Neal Caidin <neal.caidin at apereo.org> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
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>>>> Our release notes show Java 6 as being preferred -
>>>> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=82249316
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>>>> What will it take to make Java 7 preferred? Or will this already be the case
>>>> for Sakai 4 ;-) ?
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>>>> Neal
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>>>> Neal Caidin
>>>> Sakai CLE Community Coordinator
>>>> neal.caidin at apereo.org
>>>> Skype: nealkdin
>>>> Twitter: ncaidin
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>>>> On Sep 9, 2013, at 10:11 AM, Aaron Zeckoski <azeckoski at unicon.net> wrote:
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>>>> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Mark J. Norton
>>>> <markjnorton at earthlink.net> wrote:
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>>>> Still, I'd like to see some architectural review done.  Perhaps we should
>>>> build support for TinCan into the kernel.  We might consider support for a
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>>>> Good idea, already done in trunk.
>>>> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/KNL-1042
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>>>> button support, for example).  We should move up to Java 7, too.
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>>>> Same as above... but in 2.9.
>>>> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-20908
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>>>> -AZ
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>>>> Aaron Zeckoski - Software Architect - http://tinyurl.com/azprofile
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