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

[David Adams]

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.

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David Adams
Director of Server and Network Operations
Virginia Tech TLOS, Technology-enhanced Learning and Online Strategies


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?
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> Neal Caidin
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> On Sep 9, 2013, at 11:17 AM, "Mark J. Norton" <markjnorton at earthlink.net>
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> At the very least, we should be testing against Java 7 - superficially, if
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> - Mark
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> On 9/9/2013 10:37 AM, Aaron Zeckoski wrote:
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> 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:
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> 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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> Sakai CLE Community Coordinator
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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
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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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