Re: [che-dev] Dev process

[Sergii Kabashniuk <skabashnyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Small updates

We found that 4.0.0 works fine with Java 8 and we also want to speed up a bit java 8 integration so we decided to:

1. For 3.10 starting from June 3 enable Java 8 as target runtime and build environment. Source code allowed only Java 7 compatible. 

2. If everything is ok for 3.11 we will enable Java 8 features. Note that our GWT version is not allowed Java 8 specific features.

On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 4:52 PM, Sergii Kabashniuk <skabashnyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Small updates

Our dev successfully set Java 8 as runtime environment for 4.0.0 for couple of days already. Everything looks normal.

With cautious optimism we can say that for  3.11 we can move to Java 8 too.

On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 12:05 PM, Sergii Kabashniuk <skabashnyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello.

Some small news in our dev process.

1. With our new faster release schema we would like to introduce new annotation on our public REST API and SPI. 

   http://docs.guava-libraries.googlecode.com/git/javadoc/com/google/common/annotations/Beta.html It has the same meaning as it have in guava

2. We would like to declare that we want to use Java 8 in our development (at least for 4.x) because EOL of Java 7. Our road map is following.

    1. We set Java 8 required to build 4.0. With compile source and target for Java 7

    2. In several weeks we will set up Java 8 as runtime enviroment for 4.0.0

    3. If we  do not receive any blockers from our testing enviroment for 4.0.0 we start thinking about moving to Java 8 for 3.x.

       It shouldn't happen closer then 1-1,5 from step 2.

Sergii Kabashniuk