Hi Phil, If there is no compelling reason to upgrade the minimum jdk version, we should not do it. There is no immediate urgency to upgrade to commons-lang3 AFACT.
I would very much like to stay on Java 5 as a minimum. Most Maven plugins are still on Java 5 and will be for some time. The Maven project are about to start enforcing the Rat check on all its 100+ subprojects. That will not be possible if Rat switches to require Java 6. As long as there are ASF projects on Java 5, Rat should also be on Java 5. -- Dennis Lundberg Den 31 jul 2014 09:15 skrev "P. Ottlinger" <[email protected]>: > Hi guys, > > due to my addition of commons-lang3 I ran into the versioning chaos of > creadur's compiler level. > > Are there any hard reasons to keep with 1.5 in Jenkins? > > Since these ancient Java versions are not officially supported and no > security updates for the varous security issues are available I'd like to > rpopose to raise the compiler level in rat, tentacles and whisker ... > what level would you prefer? > > - 1.6 > - 1.7 > - 1.8 > > Thanks for your opinions/objections. > > I'd propose to switch to 1.7 in version 0.11 for all projects in order to > be able to upgrade dependencies and to avoid a rag rug of compiler levels > in all creadur projects. > > Cheers, > Phil >
