Re: Java version usage survey

2013-07-16 Thread Chris Graham
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Arnaud Héritier aherit...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, Java 6 EOL was in feb and Maven and its plugins are always compatible Oracle Java 6 was EOL'd. IBM Java 6 was, and is not due to be for a few more years. They even *extended* 1.5's life for a year. Sept this

Re: Java version usage survey

2013-07-16 Thread Arnaud Héritier
+1 to ensure that we have a good solution (toolchains) to continue to keep a compatibility with old Java builds. Like always, upgrading the prerequisite of the core is less annoying than the one in plugins. Users can always keep an old core (and many of them will do it as far as new core versions

Re: tags maven-3.1 vs maven-3.1.0

2013-07-16 Thread Chris Graham
Michael's point about omiting the trailing .0 is valid, and introducing it now does not follow the established convention. Is it going to be cleaned up? -Chris On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 6:42 AM, Arnaud Héritier aherit...@gmail.comwrote: lol On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Hervé BOUTEMY

Re: Java version usage survey

2013-07-16 Thread Stephen Connolly
As long as surefire can fork down to 1.5 and as long as tool chains can compile with 1.5, the only issue I can see is if the development environments where these older JVMs are running do not have newer JDKs available also. This is the same issue we face in the Jenkins project, were we are

Re: Java version usage survey

2013-07-16 Thread Arnaud Héritier
Good point. I updated the survey to tell it is the Oracle JDK EOL Survey : https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Jqxq2KgSricwS7YV7pmWvHA8m7_TE7c8JhusugPmGW4/viewform Replies : https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Jqxq2KgSricwS7YV7pmWvHA8m7_TE7c8JhusugPmGW4/viewanalytics On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 8:06 AM,

Re: tags maven-3.1 vs maven-3.1.0

2013-07-16 Thread Arnaud Héritier
I'm not in favor to recreate a maven-3.1 tag to avoid confusions and we need to keep the maven-3.1.0 which was used in the release But I agree to improve our release/RCs/Staging process as far as it remains as automated as possible. It is already complexe to release stuffs on Apache side and I

Re: Java version usage survey

2013-07-16 Thread Arnaud Héritier
For all of those who asked to access to replies (I didn't see they were protected) I'll find a solution to share these results when the survey will be really started/published. On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 8:19 AM, Arnaud Héritier aherit...@gmail.comwrote: Good point. I updated the survey to tell

Re: Java version usage survey

2013-07-16 Thread Chris Graham
Hi Arnaud. You need to at least add an OTHER (ie non oracle) entry as well. You you can track Oracle java 6 and Non-Oracle java 6. -Chris On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Arnaud Héritier aherit...@gmail.comwrote: Good point. I updated the survey to tell it is the Oracle JDK EOL Survey :

Re: Java version usage survey

2013-07-16 Thread Fred Cooke
My 2c: - J7 on Mac is unstable (trust me...) and non-performant, and thus I require my users to use Apple's J6 on the Mac. - On Linux there are lots of Swing bugs in all versions, but a lot less in J7 than J6, so I recommend J7 for Linux guys. - I don't use J5 for anything at all

Re: Log4j2/Logback integration updates

2013-07-16 Thread Lennart Jörelid
This is not (or should not be) an entirely technical question - support for various versions of JDK may be the simpler criterion to discuss, but I feel the more relevant question is Do we first and foremost see small-scale projects [small organisations] or enterprise-scale projects

Re: tags maven-3.1 vs maven-3.1.0

2013-07-16 Thread Fred Cooke
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Chris Graham chrisgw...@gmail.com wrote: Michael's point about omiting the trailing .0 is valid, and introducing it now does not follow the established convention. Is it going to be cleaned up? I sincerely hope not! That would involve potential for confusion

Re: Java version usage survey

2013-07-16 Thread Stephen Connolly
I've put a question on Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17671899/when-is-java-6-end-of-life-in-the-context-of-writing-developer-toolsto see if we can get something that is a bit more focus on facts. e.g. we are all OSS developers: thus premium/extended/sustaining support

Re: tags maven-3.1 vs maven-3.1.0

2013-07-16 Thread sebb
On 16 July 2013 09:44, Fred Cooke fred.co...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Chris Graham chrisgw...@gmail.com wrote: Michael's point about omiting the trailing .0 is valid, and introducing it now does not follow the established convention. Is it going to be cleaned up? I

RE: Java version usage survey

2013-07-16 Thread Robert Patrick
Oracle Java 5 and 6 are EOLed but Oracle continues to support customers using commercial products that require them that themselves are not EOLed. Given that current versions of Maven support Java 5 and 6, the real question is how important is it for older applications that cannot support Java

Re: Log4j2/Logback integration updates

2013-07-16 Thread Chris Graham
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 6:26 PM, Lennart Jörelid lennart.jore...@gmail.comwrote: This is not (or should not be) an entirely technical question - support for various versions of JDK may be the simpler criterion to discuss, but I feel the more relevant question is Do we first and foremost see

Re: Java version usage survey

2013-07-16 Thread Stephen Connolly
Speaking as a Maven Developer... My primary development machine is OS-X. On that machine I have 1.6.0_24-b07-334, 1.7.0_17, 1.7.0_21, and 1.7.0_25 I have a personal linode running 1.6.0_22, and my famous Acer Aspire One that has some Java 1.5 and 1.6 versions on it... but I have not turned it

Re: Java version usage survey

2013-07-16 Thread Arnaud Héritier
Recent MacOS also thus only Java 1.6 and 1.7. Maybe I could setup a VM with a Java 1.5 but to be honest I already have not enough time to contribute thus working on Maven inside a VM will never occur. On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Stephen Connolly stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Java version usage survey

2013-07-16 Thread Olivier Lamy
perso osx. So only = 1.6 2013/7/16 Stephen Connolly stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com: Speaking as a Maven Developer... My primary development machine is OS-X. On that machine I have 1.6.0_24-b07-334, 1.7.0_17, 1.7.0_21, and 1.7.0_25 I have a personal linode running 1.6.0_22, and my famous

Re: Java version usage survey

2013-07-16 Thread Lennart Jörelid
I rum mainly on OSX for client and some Linuxes for server - so client side is = JDK 1.6 // vänlig hälsning, // [sw: best regards], // // Lennart Jörelid 16 jul 2013 kl. 13:53 skrev Olivier Lamy ol...@apache.org: perso osx. So only = 1.6 2013/7/16 Stephen Connolly

Re: Java version usage survey

2013-07-16 Thread Chris Graham
Me: Linux, Windows, AIX (and if I have too, OS/2!) 1.4, 5, 6 and if I need it, I can get 7. On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Lennart Jörelid lennart.jore...@gmail.com wrote: I rum mainly on OSX for client and some Linuxes for server - so client side is = JDK 1.6 // vänlig hälsning, //

RE: Java version usage survey

2013-07-16 Thread Martin Gainty
Folks In the states..government sector (specifically State Agencies) lag at least 5 years behind available current releases the specific example I provide is the app I was working on was based on JVM 1.5 the Portal was based on JVM 1.4 the end result was: Annotations: NOPE Generics: NOPE

Release enforcer plugin?

2013-07-16 Thread David Karlsen
Hi. Would anybody care to release the enforcer 1.3.1 plugin so we can go around http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MENFORCER-156? All issues for 1.3.1 are fixed: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MENFORCER/fixforversion/19426#selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project%3Aversion-issues-panel

RE: Java version usage survey

2013-07-16 Thread Eric Barboni
Nice idea to have this survey to have some feedback from users. Do you think it may be possible to make this kind of survey to get feedback for maven web site (not plugin) or other area of maven ? Eric Joke: perso win user so using jdk8 or jdk7 according to the os version Real: jdk 7 on server

Re: Release enforcer plugin?

2013-07-16 Thread Arnaud Héritier
Hi, The release vote is already in progress. Cheers, On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:17 AM, David Karlsen davidkarl...@gmail.comwrote: Hi. Would anybody care to release the enforcer 1.3.1 plugin so we can go around http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MENFORCER-156? All issues for 1.3.1 are

Re: Java version usage survey

2013-07-16 Thread Stephen Connolly
*BUT* such agencies also find it too expensive to upgrade Maven to 3.2 so we don't actually have to worry about them ;-) If you are a refusenick on JVM you are likely also a refusenik on Maven ;-) On 16 July 2013 13:45, Martin Gainty mgai...@hotmail.com wrote: Folks In the

Re: Java version usage survey

2013-07-16 Thread Chris Graham
The last project I was on was migrating WAS/WPS/Portal V6 (JDK 1.4) - WAS/BPM/Portal V8 (JDK 1.6). Why? Because the support costs for EOL software finally made it cost effective to upgrade! :-) And even then, it was meant to be a lift and shift as in just keep the functionality the same as much

Re: Java version usage survey

2013-07-16 Thread Kristian Rosenvold
I tucked away the last public debs of 1.5 and can release 1.5 indefinitely. In the release of the last security patch, it seems like Oracle have released approx 10 nonpublic jdk 5 versions. Shame we can't have it. Kristian Den 16. juli 2013 14:14 skrev Lennart Jörelid lennart.jore...@gmail.com

Re: Log4j2/Logback integration updates

2013-07-16 Thread Ceki Gulcu
FYI, in the next version of logback, i.e. 2.0, we will be using JDK 1.6. However, the logback 1.1.x series will continue to be based on JDK 1.5. On 16.07.2013 07:06, Stephen Connolly wrote: So what I am hearing is that until we bump core to require JDK6 (or 7) then logback is the only runner

Re: Java version usage survey

2013-07-16 Thread Arnaud Héritier
Can you tell me if now you can see the result : https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Jqxq2KgSricwS7YV7pmWvHA8m7_TE7c8JhusugPmGW4/viewanalytics On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Kristian Rosenvold kristian.rosenv...@zenior.no wrote: I tucked away the last public debs of 1.5 and can release 1.5

Re: Java version usage survey

2013-07-16 Thread Stéphane Nicoll
Yep. Sent from my iPhone On 16 Jul 2013, at 20:24, Arnaud Héritier aherit...@gmail.com wrote: Can you tell me if now you can see the result : https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Jqxq2KgSricwS7YV7pmWvHA8m7_TE7c8JhusugPmGW4/viewanalytics On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Kristian Rosenvold

Re: Java version usage survey

2013-07-16 Thread Fred Cooke
Just to clarify my comments: I can't and won't build anything with anything higher than J6 for the foreseeable future, maybe upto 2 years or so, who knows. J7 is purely a runtime option for users for me, same for J8. J5 is dead for both builds and runtime in my eyes. I'd prefer to maximise my

Re: tags maven-3.1 vs maven-3.1.0

2013-07-16 Thread Anders Hammar
Isn't the convention way to omit the last zero? This has been done for Maven and all plugins/components before. No, we have 2.1.0 and 2.2.0 for the Maven core distro. Plugins would/could be a different story though. /Anders Mike

Re: Java version usage survey

2013-07-16 Thread Arnaud Héritier
For now what is resulting from this thread is : * We do a survey to better know where our user are and were they are going * We check what is the status of our tools (toolchains co) to be sure how we can easily use versions of java older than the one required by maven * We discuss on the ML to

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Maven Enforcer version 1.3.1

2013-07-16 Thread Hervé BOUTEMY
+1 Regards, Hervé Le vendredi 12 juillet 2013 23:12:02 Robert Scholte a écrit : Hi, We solved 3 issues: http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=11530styleName=H tmlversion=19426 There are still a couple of issues left in JIRA:

Re: Java version usage survey

2013-07-16 Thread Mirko Friedenhagen
What I do not really understand: - Say I am a company which are forced to run JDK1.5 because they have to recertificate everything due to Sarbains-Oxley or German GOBS. - Would I not force my developers to use the same tools to build they used for previous versions, then? - Maven 3 behaves

Re: Java version usage survey

2013-07-16 Thread Kristian Rosenvold
Look you chickens; until quite recently I kept a 1.3 JVM running on windows to do the occasional test of surefire on jdk 1.3. (I kept a vmware image since installing 1.3 on linux required surrendering your first born to Sauron) All your complaining about not being able to run 1.5 sounds like

Re: Java version usage survey

2013-07-16 Thread Kristian Rosenvold
16. juli 2013 kl. 07:35 skrev Stephen Connolly stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com: - have we good test coverage with toolchains? No. Kristian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional

Maven 3.1 - Stable ?

2013-07-16 Thread Arnaud Héritier
Hi, Do we consider the 3.1.0 as the latest stable ? On the download page there is a typo (?) http://maven.apache.org/download.cgi Maven 3.1.0 :This is the future of Maven (alpha status). On the homepage we always have the Get Maven 3.0.5 on the right http://maven.apache.org/index.html

Re: Maven 3.1 - Stable ?

2013-07-16 Thread Jason van Zyl
Typo on my part. There are 48 things to change when updating a release. I updated and triggered the publish an hour ago. I'm not sure when/how it updates. On Jul 16, 2013, at 5:34 PM, Arnaud Héritier aherit...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Do we consider the 3.1.0 as the latest stable ? On

Re: Maven 3.1 - Stable ?

2013-07-16 Thread Arnaud Héritier
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:37 PM, Jason van Zyl ja...@tesla.io wrote: Typo on my part. There are 48 things to change when updating a release. Ok. I wasn't sure if it was intentional I agree, that's a pain to do a release :( I updated and triggered the publish an hour ago. I'm not sure

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Maven Enforcer version 1.3.1

2013-07-16 Thread Tony Chemit
On Fri, 12 Jul 2013 23:12:02 +0200 Robert Scholte rfscho...@apache.org wrote: +1, works fine to me, thanks, tony. Hi, We solved 3 issues: http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=11530styleName=Htmlversion=19426 There are still a couple of issues left in JIRA:

Re: Maven 3.1 - Stable ?

2013-07-16 Thread sebb
On 16 July 2013 22:37, Jason van Zyl ja...@tesla.io wrote: Typo on my part. There are 48 things to change when updating a release. I updated and triggered the publish an hour ago. I'm not sure when/how it updates. Should be immediate (within a few seconds), assuming svnpubsub is running

Re: Java version usage survey

2013-07-16 Thread Stephen Connolly
On 16 July 2013 21:52, Kristian Rosenvold kristian.rosenv...@zenior.nowrote: Look you chickens; until quite recently I kept a 1.3 JVM running on windows to do the occasional test of surefire on jdk 1.3. (I kept a vmware image since installing 1.3 on linux required surrendering your first

Re: Java version usage survey

2013-07-16 Thread Arnaud Héritier
Until Jenkins gets upgraded to 1.520+ at which point the (crappy in my personal view) Maven job type will be unable to run 1.5 The crappy one which doesn't work with Maven 3.1.0 too (I tested it this afternoon) Can still keep trucking with a FreeStyle + Maven Build Step though (and I

Re: Java version usage survey

2013-07-16 Thread Stephen Connolly
On 16 July 2013 23:01, Arnaud Héritier aherit...@gmail.com wrote: Until Jenkins gets upgraded to 1.520+ at which point the (crappy in my personal view) Maven job type will be unable to run 1.5 The crappy one which doesn't work with Maven 3.1.0 too (I tested it this afternoon)

Re: Java version usage survey

2013-07-16 Thread Barrie Treloar
On 17 July 2013 07:31, Arnaud Héritier aherit...@gmail.com wrote: Can still keep trucking with a FreeStyle + Maven Build Step though (and I prefer that way anyway) asJenkinsUser Me too if we backport features from the crappy maven integration into the freestyle job (automatic dependencies,

Re: Java version usage survey

2013-07-16 Thread Stephen Connolly
On 16 July 2013 23:25, Barrie Treloar baerr...@gmail.com wrote: On 17 July 2013 07:31, Arnaud Héritier aherit...@gmail.com wrote: Can still keep trucking with a FreeStyle + Maven Build Step though (and I prefer that way anyway) asJenkinsUser Me too if we backport features from the

Re: Maven 3.1 - Stable ?

2013-07-16 Thread Jason van Zyl
On Jul 16, 2013, at 5:42 PM, sebb seb...@gmail.com wrote: On 16 July 2013 22:37, Jason van Zyl ja...@tesla.io wrote: Typo on my part. There are 48 things to change when updating a release. I updated and triggered the publish an hour ago. I'm not sure when/how it updates. Should be

Re: Java version usage survey

2013-07-16 Thread Chris Graham
We generally follow the practice of building on the target platform using the tools of the target platform. EG on AIX using the same version of the JDK that WAS runs on (typically using Jenkins). That does not meant that I do not want to make use of the newer versions of maven, it's plugins and

Re: Java version usage survey

2013-07-16 Thread Olivier Lamy
2013/7/17 Stephen Connolly stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com: On 16 July 2013 23:01, Arnaud Héritier aherit...@gmail.com wrote: Until Jenkins gets upgraded to 1.520+ at which point the (crappy in my personal view) Maven job type will be unable to run 1.5 The crappy one which doesn't

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Maven Enforcer version 1.3.1

2013-07-16 Thread Olivier Lamy
+1 2013/7/13 Robert Scholte rfscho...@apache.org: Hi, We solved 3 issues: http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=11530styleName=Htmlversion=19426 There are still a couple of issues left in JIRA:

Re: Maven 3.1 - Stable ?

2013-07-16 Thread sebb
On 16 July 2013 23:45, Jason van Zyl ja...@tesla.io wrote: On Jul 16, 2013, at 5:42 PM, sebb seb...@gmail.com wrote: On 16 July 2013 22:37, Jason van Zyl ja...@tesla.io wrote: Typo on my part. There are 48 things to change when updating a release. I updated and triggered the publish an hour