On 20 Jun 2014, at 01:24, Andreas Lehmkuehler <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Am 19.06.2014 22:03, schrieb John Hewson:
>> Hi All
>> 
>> The recent instability of Jenkins prompted me to set up Travis CI to build 
>> the PDFBox mirror on GitHub. Automatic builds are triggered after every 
>> commit, and they can often run much faster than on the busy Jenkins server, 
>> so this gives committers an additional means to quickly determine if their 
>> build has problems or not.
> Good idea.
> 
>> The builds are public at: https://travis-ci.org/apache/pdfbox
>> 
>> The Jenkins build is still the “ground truth” and passing that is what 
>> counts, it *might* be possible to pass Travis CI and still fail on Jenkins, 
>> so that’s something to keep in mind.
> Especially as the travis build uses oraclejdk7 as compiler. PDFBox has java6 
> as minimum requirement and that configuration may hide incompatibilities 
> because of the choosen java version.

Good point - I’ve added OpenJDK 6 to the Travis CI build now.

>> -- John
> 
> BR
> Andreas Lehmkühler
> 

— John

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