Thanks Christopher. On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 3:48 PM Christopher <ctubb...@apache.org> wrote:
> It was pointed out to me that some of the problems I had using the > modernizer-maven-plugin could be alleviated by adding granular > exceptions in the modernizer config. I'll see if I can make that > happen. > > On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 7:14 PM Christopher <ctubb...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > So, one of the problems I've run into migrating the 1.x code to JDK8 > > is that we still have Mock in the API. That was removed in 2.x. > > However, in 1.9, MockConfiguration extends a non-public API, > > AccumuloConfiguration, which uses non-public Guava types for > > Predicates. Code-modernization/quality checks performed by the > > modernizer-maven-plugin catch the use of Guava's Predicate. I'm still > > looking at this, to see if I can work around it without breaking > > anything, but it's a bit frustrating, especially since the right fix > > (removal of Mock) was already done in 2.x. > > > > I'll revisit next week after a long weekend. In the meantime, if > > anybody is having second thoughts about a 1.10 release, or opinions > > about what to do, feel free to express them here. One option is to > > simply disable the modernizer-maven-plugin and ignore those checks... > > but I don't really like the idea of disabling one of our tools that > > does quality checks (even if these are very minor quality items). > > > > On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 4:20 PM Christopher <ctubb...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > > > As agreed in the recent [VOTE] thread, we will be releasing a 1.10.0 > > > that bumps the minimum runtime Java version to 8. > > > > > > I am beginning to work on getting the branch (currently still named > > > 1.9) ready for release in accordance with this plan. As such, I will > > > be preparing a pull request that bumps the Java version and resolves > > > any errors generated by our plugins which do quality checks > > > (specifically modernizer, but also some compiler warnings). > > > > > > However, there are still a few other outstanding issues that were > > > previously labeled for 1.9, which have not yet been resolved. At least > > > one of these was labeled a "blocker". These are: > > > > https://github.com/apache/accumulo/issues?q=is%3Aopen+project%3Aapache%2Faccumulo%2F8 > > > > > > If anybody is able to work on these, it will be very helpful in > > > getting the 1.10.0 ready for a release vote. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Christopher >