Re: Java 7

[Robert Kanter <rk...@cloudera.com>]

There were 3 votes (mine was an implied +1) and no -1's, so we'll do it.

I've created OOZIE-2036 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OOZIE-2036>
to drop Java 1.6 support.

On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Mona Chitnis <mo...@apache.org> wrote:

> +1 Mona Chitnis
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>      On Tuesday, September 23, 2014 6:21 PM, Rohini Palaniswamy <
> rohini.aditya@gmail.com> wrote:
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>  +1 to drop support for Java 6 from Oozie trunk. I am just closing a vote
> on
> that for Pig now.  From Hadoop 2.7, hadoop is planning to publish maven
> artifacts in jdk1.7. So it is better we drop support. Can you also open up
> a vote for dropping support for Hadoop 0.20 along with JDK 7 one?
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> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Robert Kanter <rk...@cloudera.com>
> wrote:
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> > Hi all,
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> > I wanted to open a discussion about Java 7.  Hadoop is planning on
> dropping
> > support for JDK 6 with Hadoop 2.7.  Should we switch Oozie trunk to do
> the
> > same?
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> > On a related note, for OOZIE-1793, I'm trying to improve the findbugs
> > reporting for Oozie, and the latest findbugs requires Java 7.  So there
> are
> > 3 options:
> > - Drop support for Java 6 for Oozie trunk (the overall question above)
> > - Switch to an older version of findbugs that does support Java 6.  I'd
> > have to double check, but this may might it more difficult to get html
> > human-readable reports instead of XML
> > - Leave it as is.  Findbugs only runs with the "verify" target, so all
> > other maven commands still work with Java 6, including compiling.
> >
> > thoughts?
> >
> > thanks
> > - Robert
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