Re: Review Request 53056: FLUME-2945: Bump java target version to 1.8

[Denes Arvay <de...@cloudera.com>]

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Ship it!




LGTM, +1

- Denes Arvay


On Oct. 24, 2016, 1:27 p.m., Lior Zeno wrote:
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> (Updated Oct. 24, 2016, 1:27 p.m.)
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> Review request for Flume.
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> Repository: flume-git
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> Description
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> We should move to Java 8 as a minimum requirement.
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> 1. Java 7 is EOL'ed http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html.
> 2. Many projects are adopting java 8 as a minimum requirement, for instance:
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>     * Solr 6: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-6722
>     * Hbase 2: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-15624
>     * elasticsearch 5: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/setup.html
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> Diffs
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>   .travis.yml befc2c9 
>   DEVNOTES 83cdf89 
>   README.md 9ebb2a3 
>   conf/flume-env.sh.template 07182ca 
>   flume-ng-doc/sphinx/FlumeUserGuide.rst cd76bb3 
>   flume-ng-sources/flume-taildir-source/pom.xml 96c2468 
>   pom.xml f62c99a 
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> Diff: https://reviews.apache.org/r/53056/diff/6/
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> Testing
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> The attached patch was tested on Ubuntu 16.04 with openjdk version "1.8.0_91".
> All unit tests, except for the known flaky ones, successfully passed.
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> Thanks,
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> Lior Zeno
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