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From: Olivier Lamy <olamy@apache.org>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 13:55:15 +1100
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Subject: Re: JDK-8 developer preview for our Jenkins?
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Installed only for ubuntu-ARM nodes.

You must choose "Open JDK 1.8 ..."

Have Fun
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Olivier

On 12 November 2013 09:23, Uwe Schindler <uschindler@apache.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Cool! Oracle asked yesterday if they should ask other ASF projects, too, =
and they did :-)
>
> At the moment we are doing the Lucene/Solr tests in close cooperation wit=
h Oracle (we had some phone conferences the last weeks about this). Unfortu=
nately we cannot run this on the ASF Jenkins machine at the moment, because=
 we use some custom groovy scripts inside Jenkins to randomly choose a diff=
erent JVM + full dynamic configuration (like garbage collector, bitness, co=
mpressed oops, client/server VM, it=92s a large number of combinations poss=
ible). By this we already found tons of bugs in Java 8, but also the reason=
 for the stability problems in Java 7u40 and u45, so Oracle is happy to wor=
k together with the Lucene project.
>
> The Jenkins server running all these tests is available at: http://jenkin=
s.thetaphi.de
> Here is the talk about this setup: http://berlinbuzzwords.de/sites/berlin=
buzzwords.de/files/slides/Schindler-BugsBugsBugs.pdf
> This machine is running Linux (Ubuntu 12.04) with 2 VirtualBOX VMs runnin=
g Windows 7 and MacOSX 10.8 (natively, non-patched/cracked, non-hackintosh =
EFI64 setup)
>
> Unfortunately, without support for this special configuration through ASF=
 and/or additional hardware, I cannot provide this service to other project=
s.
>
> Uwe
>
> -----
> Uwe Schindler
> uschindler@apache.org
> Apache Lucene PMC Chair / Committer
> Bremen, Germany
> http://lucene.apache.org/
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mark Struberg [mailto:struberg@yahoo.de]
>> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 6:13 PM
>> To: builds@apache.org
>> Subject: Re: JDK-8 developer preview for our Jenkins?
>>
>>
>>
>> This is a chicken and egg problem.
>>
>> Dalibor Topic (one of the openjdk leads) asked me if we could do some
>> testing with Java8 so they have better feedback about the maturity.
>> He (and me as well) like to prevent such disasters like it happened with=
 the
>> last java7 upgrade where a few core projects like lucene didn't work
>> anymore.
>>
>> What is the problem with installing openjdk-8-preview as JDK on at least=
 our
>> ubuntu boxes?
>> It should of course clearly get marked as 'preview'. But I think it woul=
d also be
>> of great help for a few ASF projects to detect any limitations and probl=
ems
>> very early.
>> If we don't detect them yet, then we probably have to deal with them in
>> production later.
>>
>>
>> LieGrue,
>> strub
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> >________________________________
>> > From: Jake Farrell <jfarrell@apache.org>
>> >To: "builds@apache.org" <builds@apache.org>; Mark Struberg
>> <struberg@yahoo.de>
>> >Sent: Monday, 11 November 2013, 18:01
>> >Subject: Re: JDK-8 developer preview for our Jenkins?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >For openjdk we currently only have in use the default packages provided
>> from ubuntu, I would prefer not to install preview versions on the slave=
s if
>> possible. Is there an immediate need for this or can it wait till openjd=
k-8 is
>> GA?
>> >
>> >
>> >-Jake
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Mark Struberg <struberg@yahoo.de>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >Hi folks!
>> >>
>> >>I'm interested in testing many of my projects with the JDK-8 developer
>> preview.
>> >>Is there an easy way to install openjdk8 on any of the jenkins boxes?
>> >>
>> >>txs and LieGrue,
>> >>strub
>> >
>> >
>> >
>


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