I will give you a good reason of not moving to Java 8: a lot of people in the community are still deploying on OS X versions that can only use Java 6 or 5. I still don't understand why people still deploy on OS X, but anyway.
----- Mail original ----- De: "David Avendasora" <[email protected]> À: "WebObjects-Dev Mailing List List" <[email protected]> Envoyé: Vendredi 1 Mai 2015 09:20:44 Objet: Re: Wonder 7 and 8 Okay, since Java 7 is officially dead as of today, should we just jump directly to Java 8? I’m fine with freezing Wonder 6 (feature-wise) as-is and making the current Wonder 7 branch target Java 8. Any reason we *shouldn’t* do that? We can still do additional bug-fix releases of Wonder-6 for the next year or so, but all new features and development go into Wonder 8. With that in mind, how about this for a plan: 3) Create new Wonder_6 branch from Wonder 6.1.3 release 3) Merge Wonder_7 branch into master 3) Make Wonder_7 Jenkins job build master branch, targeting Java 8 3) Process all the current pull requests into master to be included in Wonder_7, only critical bug fixes will be merged into Wonder_6 To be clear, Wonder_7 isn’t *only* about targeting Java 8, it’s also removes a lot of deprecated code and fixes long-standing bugs. **IT WILL BREAK APPS**. The focus for Wonder 7 is to move forward. Backward compatibility will be considered but it will not *automatically* have a higher priority than fixing bugs. If we do this, Wonder_6 will be the stable branch. 6.1.3 will be the “stable” release. Dave P.S. I know I’m jumping in here. I’m not on the WOCommunity Board, and I don’t want to be stepping on their toes, or on the toes of committers that have been trying to push things forward over the past couple years. I *really* appreciate all the hard work that has been put in by everyone and we wouldn’t be even a shadow of the phenomenal community that we are without them! Right now, stagnation is our enemy. I laughed out loud at Chuck’s earlier statement: " He was just indicating that it was an appropriate time for Wonder to be updated for Java 7!” because it’s so true! However, I want to laugh just as hard at the total absurdity of him saying: “Getting Wonder to Java 8 couldn’t have been that hard. Dave Avendasora did it!” at WOWODC next year! On Apr 30, 2015, at 7:59 PM, Ramsey Gurley < [email protected] > wrote: Sounds good to me. What is the ETA on step 3? ;-) Er, merging Wonder_7? On Apr 29, 2015, at 7:44 AM, David Avendasora < [email protected] > wrote: <blockquote> Hey all About a year ago a bunch of work to make Wonder Java 7 compatible. But the branch is now 86 commits behind the master branch (Wonder 6). I propose we: 1) Create a branch at the current head of master called Wonder_6 for 6-specific bug fixes going forward 2) Merge Wonder_7 branch into Master and then delete it. 3) Create the *first* release of Wonder 7 from Master 4) Work through as much of the current pull requests as possible, making sure they work well with Java 7, create a final Wonder_7 release 3) Create Wonder_7 branch for 7-specific bug fixes going forward 5) Use Master for ongoing modern java development until we transition to Wonder_9 If there are features that are added to the more modern branches but you can’t use them because you are limited to Java 6 or 7, then you will be allowed to create pull requests to bring those commits to older branches the the work to do so would be on the developer wanting the back-porting. Not on the original developer. What does everyone say? Dave ————————————————————————————— WebObjects - so easy that even Dave Avendasora can do it!™ ————————————————————————————— David Avendasora Senior Software Abuser Nekesto, Inc. _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list ( [email protected] ) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/rgurley%40smarthealth.com This email sent to [email protected] </blockquote> ————————————————————————————— WebObjects - so easy that even Dave Avendasora can do it!™ ————————————————————————————— David Avendasora Senior Software Abuser Nekesto, Inc. _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/probert%40macti.ca This email sent to [email protected]
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