+1 Sounds like a good idea to move forward to 1.7.
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 7:22 PM, Joe Brockmeier <j...@zonker.net> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 26, 2013, at 05:36 PM, Hugo Trippaers wrote: > > However at a certain point we should start to advice people to run > > CloudStack on java 1.7 as there are no more public security updates to > > java 1.6. > > Previously: http://markmail.org/thread/s2dzo5ib7ox46l4f > > > So summarized proposal, make 4.2 the last version to support 1.6 and > > switch maven source version to 1.7 after we cut the release branch for > > 4.2. The new reference platform for the next release would be jdk 1.7 and > > tomcat7 (meaning packaging will be tested on those platforms). > > > > So what do you all think of this? If we are ok to do this i would like to > > start with this right after the release branch cut. This constitutes a > > major architecture change so i would want this to be in as early as > > possible in the release cycle. > > I'm in favor of this. > > Best, > > jzb > -- > Joe Brockmeier > j...@zonker.net > Twitter: @jzb > http://www.dissociatedpress.net/ > -- *Mike Tutkowski* *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com o: 303.746.7302 Advancing the way the world uses the cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play> *™*