I'd love a 0.5.0 release, FWIW. Would pulling down openjdk 7 artifacts go more reliably? That would presumably be a bit less disruptive than also jumping to jdk8.
(for clarity, I don't think this is too aggressive, since the default is just an exemplar and folks could always roll their own.) On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 1:39 PM, Allen Wittenauer <[email protected]> wrote: > > It looks like our default Docker image that we ship with Yetus is > failing to build because it can’t download stuff from Oracle. Given that we > probably should do at least something to fix it :), I thought it might be > time to actually just upgrade the image completely. I’ve filed YETUS-512 > which does the following: > > * Switches the base OS to Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 > * Removes all of the Oracle JDK bits > * Switches the JDK to OpenJDK 8 (Headless) > * Removes a bunch of hacks that are no longer necessary > > As a result, this one builds significantly faster and is a tad bit > smaller. If we think that’s too aggressive, then the alternative is to just > remove the Oracle JDK7 bits from the current image. Either way, we’re > looking at an incompatible/disruptive change. > > Sidenote: I’m currently trying to go through all of the 0.5.0 open > issues. My goal is to work towards a release relatively soon, but no > promises. Haven’t decided yet whether I’m going to tackle some of the bigger > issues yet. > > Thanks.
