+1 I know thats not easy to update all kinds of nodes to Java 1.6+. But the jenkins core should be cleaned up to depend on Java 1.6.
Conny Am Mittwoch, 5. September 2012 21:18:41 UTC+2 schrieb domi: > > Hi all, > > just after todays meeting on the IRC chat, we startet a discussion about > upgrading Jenkins to Java 6. > As Java 5 has reached EOL since quite a while, some core developers have > asked whether it would be > OK to bump Jenkins' runtime dependency from Java5 to Java6. > The core is already build on Java6, but until now still backward > compatible with Java5. > Therefore we would like to know from you (Users) whether you have an issue > with this upgrade. > This would mean, that in the future you will have to have Java6 installed > to run Jenkins (for Master and Slave). > > Here are the current usage numbers (installations we know of): > Java 1.5: 655 > Java 1.6: 29164 > Java 1.7: 2919 > > So please give us some feedback/votes on this. > Domi
