On Thu, 2017-08-24 at 15:15 +0200, Oliver Lietz wrote: > On Thursday 24 August 2017 13:34:08 Robert Munteanu wrote: > > On Thu, 2017-08-24 at 13:19 +0200, Oliver Lietz wrote: > > > I guess 8888 was chosen to prevent clashes with other servers > > > running > > > on the > > > same machine and bound to 8080, e.g. Jenkins or regular Sling. > > > Why > > > not use > > > dynamic ports when running tests? > > > > Integration tests are using dynamic ports as far as I know. So > > there > > would be no clashes there. > > launchpad/integration-tests is using a fixed port but 8080. > > To prevent accidents (writing test data to local Sling instances*) I > would > omit any default port and force users to provide one (not running any > tests > when port is missing).
I've created https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-7092 to track removal of port 8888. We can have separate Jira instances for other improvements. Robert
