i'm ok with 1) we still have the compile and signature check in the poms. i cannot remember any problems in in the last 1-2 years that where related to differences between the JDK versions.
stefan >-----Original Message----- >From: Robert Munteanu [mailto:romb...@apache.org] >Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2017 11:39 AM >To: dev@sling.apache.org >Subject: [Fwd: [JENKINS] [IMPORTANT] - Jenkins Migration and Upgrade (And >JDK7 deprecation)] > >Hi, > >In two weeks the ASF Jenkins instance will stop supporting JDK 7 for >Maven jobs (details attached). > >There will be an impact for us as we have a large number of jobs >fitting this description. > >There are two ways out: > >1) Remove the Java 7 jobs, as we're moving towards Java 8 anyway >2) Switch to the freestyle job type > >The downside of 1) is that we will no longer test with Java 7. >The downside of 2) is that we will no longer have automatic job >dependencies calculated and we will have to either > >a) manually maintain the dependencies between jobs >b) live with stale jobs and/or manually trigger them > >I would incline towards 1), but I would like to hear what others think >as well. > >Thanks, > >Robert
