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

[Neal Caidin]

Okay, that's good news, I think. Is it enough to make it official? I'm guessing Java 7 is probably running on a number of production sites?


Please update https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/QA/QA+Servers+-+Sakai+2.9  with the correct Java versions on the servers.

Thanks,
Neal



Neal Caidin
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On Sep 9, 2013, at 3:05 PM, Matthew Jones <matthew at longsight.com> wrote:

> I know qa29.longsight.com is running Java 7 (OpenJDK 1.7.0_25), and I believe Chris Maurer upgraded nightly last year to Java 7 when Earl was fixing some issues. (export JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk1.7.0_21) 
> https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/nightly/build-scripts/trunk-nightly/build.sh
> 
> Sakai 2.8 is incompatible with Java 7 so that still starts up and requires 1.6. 
> 
> So I'd say 7 is already the preferred version for 2.9+, but we still have full Java 6 support. 
> 
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> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 2:38 PM, David Adams <da1 at vt.edu> wrote:
> I'm not part of the release team or the TCC, but if the QA servers are
> not already running on Java 7, it's long overdue. As of June 2013,
> Java 6 can no longer be considered secure, as the latest security
> update, which was released at that time, is not available to the
> public. I don't believe Sakai should require its users to contract for
> support from Oracle to run the recommended configuration securely.
> 
> --
> David Adams
> Director of Server and Network Operations
> Virginia Tech TLOS, Technology-enhanced Learning and Online Strategies
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> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 11:01 AM, 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?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Neal
> >
> >
> >
> > 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:
> >
> > At the very least, we should be testing against Java 7 - superficially, if
> > not more.
> >
> > - Mark
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Neal Caidin <neal.caidin at apereo.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Our release notes show Java 6 as being preferred -
> > https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=82249316
> >
> > What will it take to make Java 7 preferred? Or will this already be the case
> > for Sakai 4 ;-) ?
> >
> > Neal
> >
> >
> >
> > 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:
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Mark J. Norton
> > <markjnorton at earthlink.net> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> > Good idea, already done in trunk.
> > https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/KNL-1042
> >
> >
> > button support, for example).  We should move up to Java 7, too.
> >
> >
> > Same as above... but in 2.9.
> > https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-20908
> >
> > -AZ
> >
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