I think even if we next support 11 as a minimum version, it's still useful to test with the intermediate versions since our users are using them now.
On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 11:34 AM Erick Erickson <[email protected]> wrote: > I didn't mean to suggest we switch to 11 as a minimum now, rather I > meant to say "If the next supported version will be 11 (whenever it's > stable enough), does it make sense to stop testing 9 and 10 now?". > > A better question would have been "do we ever expect to have Java 9 or > 10 as the minimum stable version? If not should we stop testing with > them?" > > Up to you of course. > On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 8:19 AM Uwe Schindler <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > Do we have any plans to release any Solr with minimal versions 9 or > > > 10? I'm wondering if it makes sense to stop testing 9 and 10 and plan > > > on the next supported Java version being 11 (whenever we do that). > > > > I don't think, we should now switch to Java 11 as minimum version yet. > I'd propose to do this after release of Lucene 8 (once branch_8x is > created) and only do that in the master branch. Of course, we can leave out > Java 9 and 10 and jump to 11. > > > > But interestingly: Java 9 and Java 10 are as stable as Java 8 (approx > same number of failures). Java 11 caused many more failures in Solr because > of some changes in TLS infrastructure (Java's support for TLS 1.3). We may > need to work on those problems. > > > > > > reduce the noise for failed tests from 9 and 10 > > > > repurpose those runs for more testing of 8 or 11 or 12 > > > > > > I don't have any strong feelings either way, it just popped into my > > > head and I thought I'd ask. > > > > See above, 9 and 10 are as satbel as 8, it's Java 11 and 12 that cause > more noise (of course this does not count crashes in some JVM versions). > > > > Uwe > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- Lucene/Solr Search Committer, Consultant, Developer, Author, Speaker LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley | Book: http://www.solrenterprisesearchserver.com
