Ok I will commit/merge all the bugs I have open to close them And after I will make a review of the open bugs to check if we can close some of them
Antonio 2016-09-12 16:24 GMT+02:00 Felix Schumacher < felix.schumac...@internetallee.de>: > > > Am 12. September 2016 16:19:32 MESZ, schrieb Antonio Gomes Rodrigues < > ra0...@gmail.com>: > >Hi, > > > >Do we have an idea in which OSes user rune JMeter? > > > >If you check rebelLabs 2016 report ( > >https://zeroturnaround.com/rebellabs/reports/) we can read > > > >"62% of respondents state that Java 8 is used > >to run their main production applications. 28% of > >respondents are on Java 7 with less than one in ten > > So it's still nearly one third of our potential users, that are using java > 7. That seems to be a good argument to support it, don't you think? > > >using Java 6. The 1% sitting in the other category > >consist of Java 5 users and some brave Java 9 power > >users!" > > > >Java 8 win. > > > >TavisCI already check Java8 build. Why do you think that moving to 8 > >now > >will take a lot of effort? > > It would take no effort, but that was not the point. > > > > >About bugs, have we got un process to review all the bugs and close > >some of > >them (not a bug, not enought information....)? > > No formal review process, that I know of. > > Regards, > Felix > > > > >Thank > >Antonio > > > > > >2016-09-11 14:40 GMT+02:00 sebb <seb...@gmail.com>: > > > >> On 10 September 2016 at 20:58, Felix Schumacher > >> <felix.schumac...@internetallee.de> wrote: > >> > Am 10.09.2016 um 21:53 schrieb Vladimir Sitnikov: > >> >> > >> >> Felix>My main concern is, that we exclude all those people, that > >are > >> >> Felix>still using java 7 (for whatever reason). > >> >> > >> >> Are there people who want to use JMeter 3.1 and they cannot use > >Java 8? > >> >> If one is stuck with Java 7, then JMeter 3.0 will work just fine. > >> > > >> > There are a few minor nags in 3.0 which I would really like to get > >> solved in > >> > a 3.1 or 3.0.1. > >> > > >> > After that I am fine with updating to java 8. > >> > > >> >> > >> >> Is there anybody who contributes to JMeter and who cannot use Java > >8? > >> > > >> > As contribution is everything from writing patches to telling your > >> friends > >> > how awesome jmeter is, I have to say: I don't know ;) > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> "we exclude..still using java 7" is not practical as there might > >be > >> always > >> >> be someone > >> >> who "still uses java 7". > >> > > >> > Right and that is why we will update to java 8 after the (hopefully > >near) > >> > next release. > >> > > >> > If everyone else thinks we should update to java 8 right now, I > >might > >> change > >> > my mind, though. > >> > >> It's all about the cost-benfit analysis. > >> > >> JMeter is generally used stand-alone and can be run in its own JVM or > >> host if necessary, so Java upgrades shouldn't involve much work. > >> > >> It's still important to ensure that the Java version is widely > >> available (and stable) on different OSes so that upgrading is > >possible > >> for as many end-users as possible. > >> So Java 9 is out of scope at present. > >> > >> Also there will still be costs if users have to upgrade, so there > >must > >> be sufficient end-user benefits to justify the costs. > >> > >> In principle, I am not against requiring Java 8 now, except that > >there > >> are some bugs that really deserve to be fixed first. > >> > >> I think moving to 8 now will take effort which is better spent on > >> fixing the bugs and regressions that have been reported. > >> > >> > Felix > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> Vladimir > >> >> > >> > > >> > >
