Yes that looks clear from the article. How stupid is that, start testing a hugely popular project like Lucene on a hugely important JDK update a single week before the latter is GA? And then complaining that *Oracle* did not turn around immediately on the bug report, over a weekend no less.
In all fairness, the loop optimization bug has a submit date of May 13, it was not discovered by the Lucene team. Maybe before Lucene, Oracle evaluated that to be an extremely rare thing that wouldn't like affect real-world code (Pentium FDIV all over again... never make this kind of bet with bugs that silently produce wrong results, no matter how huge your internal testing with real app code - as a single important/vocal affected user/project means loads of shit hitting the fan). So thumbs down to Oracle, too, for glossing over this particular bug to keep their planned release date. But Lucene's behavior was just as irresponsible. One interesting comment is to complain that the GA build was the same as the month-old b147. That's stupid, this is how a RC build is SUPPOSED to be. Old Sun never did that properly, the GA release of a major JDK update (and even most minor updates when these had beta builds) was never identical to the last RC; it always had a few last- minute changes (often revealed by a "micro-build" letter suffix, e.g. "125e" where only that latter was increased from the last RC). JDK 7 is the first release I remember that's bit-per-bit identical to the last public prerelease build, and that is good because that's a build that thousands of people and projects have tested, which reduces the risk of last-minute surprises in the GA. A+ Osvaldo On Jul 31, 5:23 pm, Fabrizio Giudici <fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it> wrote: > Uwe has posted a clear and detailed crono-story of the thing: > > http://blog.thetaphi.de/2011/07/real-story-behind-java-7-ga-bugs.html > > Do I understand well that they started testing Lucene on Java 7 with > Hudson only one week ago? > > -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici -www.tidalwave.it/people > fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
