On Tue, 2017-06-27 at 15:48 +0000, Stefan Seifert wrote: > 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.
Done via https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-7005 . Robert > > 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