Result of the VOTE: - 8 binding +1 and 3 non-binding +1 - no veto The VOTE is passed! So what do we need to do now: - change the top level pom to reflect this (compiler setting + release plugin config) - modify agents on CI to use Java7. However we probably need to leave some agents on Java6 to build 5.x branches. Anything else? Thanks -Vincent On 31 Jan 2014 at 10:06:34, [email protected] ([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote:
Java 6 has been end of life for more than a year now.
I think it’s reasonable for us to require java7 in 6.x.
XWiki users who are in production will have about 1 year before upgrading so that should leave them enough time to prepare.
@Thomas: I think you should send a Poll mail to the users list to ask our users how much pain they’d have if we switched to 7 for 6.x
Thanks -Vincent
PS: I couldn’t find any recent stat usage of Java 6 vs 7 in production.
On 31 Jan 2014 at 09:54:41, Thomas Mortagne ([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote:
Hi devs,
I would like to propose that we move to Java 7 as minimum version in XWiki 6.0.
You can look at http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XCOMMONS-432 for details on why and why not.
The only cons basically is that Java 6 may still be used in production but we are talking about a version that won't be used in production before at least 3 months.
WDYT ?
Here is my +1
-- Thomas Mortagne