Re: [RESULT] Re: Please retweet and vote

2017-09-10 Thread Baptiste Mathus
Hello, Only lurking those days, but chiming in quickly here :-). 2017-09-10 20:54 GMT+02:00 Robert Scholte : > On Sun, 10 Sep 2017 20:21:11 +0200, Stephen Connolly < > stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun 10 Sep 2017 at 19:04, Tibor Digana

Re: [RESULT] Re: Please retweet and vote

2017-09-10 Thread Tibor Digana
Robert, >>And if we're focusing on the latter, shouldn't the twitter question be Good remark! I am not against such question on Twitter but I would be interested in one more in comparison to Gradle. *What the Maven should improve to make Maven more attractive against Gradle?* Because I don't

Re: [RESULT] Re: Please retweet and vote

2017-09-10 Thread Robert Scholte
On Sun, 10 Sep 2017 20:21:11 +0200, Stephen Connolly wrote: On Sun 10 Sep 2017 at 19:04, Tibor Digana wrote: Hi All, Are we facing new API regarding networking and security useful in Java 8? When I first saw these options I

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2017-09-10 Thread Tibor Digana
Stephen, I was pragmatic and did not want to push users to use Maven only because JDK 7 is weak. First the interest should go from inside, this means API and then users. I agree with Michael whether we should better focus on Maven 4 and POM structure. For instance today everybody could notice

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2017-09-10 Thread Michael Osipov
Am 2017-09-10 um 19:07 schrieb Stephen Connolly: Hervé and I discussed on irc earlier today. My suggestion - I was going to write up tomorrow - is that we drop 7 for 3.6.x We should focus 3.6.x on making the codebase Java 8 (lambdas, replace FileStream with the non-file handle leak

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2017-09-10 Thread Stephen Connolly
On Sun 10 Sep 2017 at 19:04, Tibor Digana wrote: > Hi All, > > Are we facing new API regarding networking and security useful in Java 8? > > When I first saw these options I asked myself what benefit would have the > User and Jenkins from Java 8. > And second question was

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2017-09-10 Thread Tibor Digana
Hi All, Are we facing new API regarding networking and security useful in Java 8? When I first saw these options I asked myself what benefit would have the User and Jenkins from Java 8. And second question was whether we would be so flexible to rewrite the code and use Lambda fully anywhere in

Re: [RESULT] Re: Please retweet and vote

2017-09-10 Thread Stephen Connolly
Hervé and I discussed on irc earlier today. My suggestion - I was going to write up tomorrow - is that we drop 7 for 3.6.x We should focus 3.6.x on making the codebase Java 8 (lambdas, replace FileStream with the non-file handle leak version, adopt Path, etc) with a view to encourage

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2017-09-10 Thread Arnaud Héritier
But on twitter thus probably far from being a good representation of our users ... Le dim. 10 sept. 2017 à 18:45, Gary Gregory a écrit : > On Sep 10, 2017 10:33, "Robert Scholte" wrote: > > So what would be the conclusion? > > 35% want to keep

Re: [RESULT] Re: Please retweet and vote

2017-09-10 Thread Gary Gregory
On Sep 10, 2017 10:33, "Robert Scholte" wrote: So what would be the conclusion? 35% want to keep Java7 as JRE for Maven for a shorter or longer period? IMHO that's a lot but less than the 65% who do not, an overwhelming majority. Gary Robert On Sun, 10 Sep 2017

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2017-09-10 Thread Robert Scholte
So what would be the conclusion? 35% want to keep Java7 as JRE for Maven for a shorter or longer period? IMHO that's a lot Robert On Sun, 10 Sep 2017 11:55:20 +0200, Stephen Connolly wrote: So poll results: 493 votes cast 25% want Java 7,8&9 for Maven

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2017-09-10 Thread Stephen Connolly
So poll results: 493 votes cast 25% want Java 7,8&9 for Maven 3.6.x 65% want Java 8&9 for Maven 3.6.x 10% want Java 8&9 for Maven 3.6.x and 6 months of backporting to 3.5.x On Sat 9 Sep 2017 at 11:50, Stephen Connolly < stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com> wrote: >