Ugh, frowny face.

On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 3:30 PM, Allen Wittenauer
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I forgot to mention something here, which makes it a bit more of a nuanced 
> decision.  The default repos from Ubuntu are set up such that:
>
>         OpenJDK 7 = 14.04 (Trusty)
>         OpenJDK 8 = 16.04 (Xenial)
>
>         All of the “get 7 on 16.04” and “get 8 on 14.04” I’ve seen have not 
> been… appealing.  (“Figure out which deb you need, then…”  or “add the trusty 
> repos temporarily” or … yeah.  Not good.)
>
>
>         So if we want to stick with 7, then that means sticking with Trusty.
>
>> On May 31, 2017, at 1:06 PM, Sean Busbey <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>

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