D'oh - sorry, no idea how I missed those words. Guess that's what comes of replying to emails at 11pm...
Richard On 11:13PM, Thu, 26/03/2015 James Nord <[email protected]> wrote: > You misread and 100% agreed with what I originally said :-) > > "...they will have a JDK that won't get security fixes in less time than > this* unless they have some commercial support*" > > Getting fixes from RedHat requires an active licence/support agreement, > ditto for Java SE for business. > > > On Thursday, 26 March 2015 09:54:30 UTC, Richard Bywater wrote: > >> Not entirely true - Redhat customers will get until at least November (so >> a further 6 months) and even after that the company could be paying Oracle >> for extended support. >> >> Richard. >> >> On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 at 22:39 James Nord <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Wednesday, 25 March 2015 16:33:09 UTC, Jesse Glick wrote: >>> >>>> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 6:53 AM, Stephen Connolly >>>> >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> > Which is why I think going for JDK7 now is a better plan than trying >>>> to jump >>>> > all the way to JDK8 >>>> >>>> Painful as it is, I tend to agree. To be clear, by current LTS policy, >>>> switching the baseline to Java 8 means that someone whose corporate IT >>>> supports installation of only Java 7 will not receive even security >>>> fixes in about three months. (CloudBees customers get an extra nine >>>> months’ reprieve.) Otherwise they are left to backport for themselves. >>>> >>> >>> But they will have a JDK that won't get security fixes in less time than >>> this unless they have some commercial support - so I don't get what your >>> point is here? >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. >>> >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >> >> >>> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ >>> msgid/jenkinsci-dev/bfbcba82-cb58-43b4-a763-77b326662a9b% >>> 40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/bfbcba82-cb58-43b4-a763-77b326662a9b%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/4d65da98-f640-448f-b4f8-ee45b1872ef9%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/4d65da98-f640-448f-b4f8-ee45b1872ef9%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CAMui947zucXj0zdddmdn7NdV_B8rubTsNVyXKyZgh1Gh8v_xVg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
