Hi team,

Let me quickly summarise what we’re trying to resolve on this thread.

Problem #1: due to Oracle licensing changes people are expected to move away 
from Oracle Java and support of other “open” Java implementations will become 
important for ZooKeeper.

Problem #2: Java 8 support will end in September 2018, we have to add support 
for Java 11 (LTS). Java 9 and 10 support are nice-to-haves, because those are 
not LTS releases.

branch-3.4 (stable version):
From Jenkins this is currently the most stable version (kudos for the hard work 
with flaky tests).
Problem: Java 11 build is failing due to Kerberos tests. 
Solution: Backport Kerberos tests from 3.5

I think there’s no need to change Java support on branch-3.4 or it’s not scope 
of this conversation.

branch-3.5 (upcoming stable version):
Problem: there’s no Java 11 build currently
Solution: create new Jenkins job

branch-3.6 (master):
Problem: Java 11 build is constantly failing
Solution: no solution provided yet

A few more thoughts:
- We don’t necessarily need to add Java 11 support for branch-3.4. I think it 
would be better to push people towards upgrading to 3.5 and focus on making it 
stable as soon as possible. (See the other thread for details - we’re getting 
close)
- We should add more pressure on the testing side of 3.5: there’re only 3 
Jenkins job currently running on branch-3.5. Let’s add Oracle Java 11 build, 
OpenJDK 8,9,10,11 whatever you think makes sense. 

Regards,
Andor





> On 2018. Sep 13., at 8:38, Enrico Olivelli <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Il gio 13 set 2018, 01:00 Patrick Hunt <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> ha scritto:
> 
>> Historically we've always defined a minimum version and let users decide.
>> That seems to have worked pretty well. It provides the most flexibility and
>> hasn't really bothered us too much. It limits our use of new language
>> features of Java, but typically Java is ensuring b/w compat from a runtime
>> perspective and as a result there's isn't much of a burden to say we
>> support 6 and laters vs alternately saying we support 6&8 exclusively.
>> 
> 
> The problem is only about a test case. We can copy the test case 3.5 branch
> which is using Kerby and run that one in case of java >= 11 using junit
> 'assumptions'.
> 
> Enrico
> 
> 
>> Patrick
>> 
>> On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 7:16 AM Enrico Olivelli <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Il mer 12 set 2018, 11:37 Norbert Kalmar <[email protected]>
>> ha
>>> scritto:
>>> 
>>>> Thanks Enrico!
>>>> 
>>>> Agree, as I mentioned, only JDK8 and 11 should be tested on 3.4 and
>> other
>>>> branches as well.
>>>> 
>>>> I checked the Kerby problems, 3.4 does not have Kerby, it uses Apache
>>>> directory server.
>>>> Maybe we should introduce also introduce Kerby on 3.4? Or just try to
>> fix
>>>> the problems with directory server.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Directory Server supports jdk6 and Kerby not.
>>> If wr drop JDK6 we  can switch to Kerby
>>> 
>>> Enrico
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Norbert
>>>> 
>>>> On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 11:22 AM Enrico Olivelli <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Il giorno mer 12 set 2018 alle ore 11:04 Norbert Kalmar
>>>>> <[email protected]> ha scritto:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Oracle8 will have it's support end in January. They changed there
>>>> release
>>>>>> drastically.
>>>>>> A good article on that:
>>>>>> https://dev.karakun.com/java/2018/06/25/java-releases.html
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Long story short: From January, no Oracle JDK version can be used
>> in
>>>> PROD
>>>>>> environment without a license. End every release, even LTS (next
>> one
>>> is
>>>>>> version 11) will only have a 6 month public update period.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> We should also decide on the supported versions of Java.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> My opinion: We should make sure ZK is compatible with Oracle 8 and
>>> 11,
>>>>> and
>>>>>> also openJDK 8 and 11.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> But after that, every 6 month, there will be a new Oracle Java
>>> version
>>>>>> which we should support.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> What do you think? What version to support? What about 3.4 now that
>>> 3.5
>>>>> is
>>>>>> getting close to stable? (I think fix 3.4 on Oracle 11 and that's
>> it
>>> -
>>>>> 3.5
>>>>>> stable should be out by the time 12 comes out).
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> As far as I know ZK is running fine on JDK11, even 3.4.
>>>>> We have a problem with Kerberos tests on 3.4, but we can fix them.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> I can add that as far as I know there will not be any 'Oracle JDK 12"
>>> GA,
>>>>> but only OpenJDK will be released to GA from Oracle
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Once we have an agreement, we should create jira's to fix Java11
>>>>> problems.
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Ok to me
>>>>> 
>>>>> We can consider also dropping support for JDK6 on 3.4 branch, this is
>>>>> actually the problem
>>>>> 
>>>>> Enrico
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> Norbert
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> --
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- Enrico Olivelli
>>> 
>> 
> -- 
> 
> 
> -- Enrico Olivelli

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