+1 to drop support for Java 6 from Oozie trunk. I am just closing a vote on that for Pig now. From Hadoop 2.7, hadoop is planning to publish maven artifacts in jdk1.7. So it is better we drop support. Can you also open up a vote for dropping support for Hadoop 0.20 along with JDK 7 one?
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Robert Kanter <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I wanted to open a discussion about Java 7. Hadoop is planning on dropping > support for JDK 6 with Hadoop 2.7. Should we switch Oozie trunk to do the > same? > > On a related note, for OOZIE-1793, I'm trying to improve the findbugs > reporting for Oozie, and the latest findbugs requires Java 7. So there are > 3 options: > - Drop support for Java 6 for Oozie trunk (the overall question above) > - Switch to an older version of findbugs that does support Java 6. I'd > have to double check, but this may might it more difficult to get html > human-readable reports instead of XML > - Leave it as is. Findbugs only runs with the "verify" target, so all > other maven commands still work with Java 6, including compiling. > > thoughts? > > thanks > - Robert >
