Installed only for ubuntu-ARM nodes. You must choose "Open JDK 1.8 ..."
Have Fun -- Olivier On 12 November 2013 09:23, Uwe Schindler <uschind...@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 with > Oracle (we had some phone conferences the last weeks about this). > Unfortunately 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 > different JVM + full dynamic configuration (like garbage collector, bitness, > compressed oops, client/server VM, it’s a large number of combinations > possible). 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 > work together with the Lucene project. > > The Jenkins server running all these tests is available at: > http://jenkins.thetaphi.de > Here is the talk about this setup: > http://berlinbuzzwords.de/sites/berlinbuzzwords.de/files/slides/Schindler-BugsBugsBugs.pdf > This machine is running Linux (Ubuntu 12.04) with 2 VirtualBOX VMs running > 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 projects. > > Uwe > > ----- > Uwe Schindler > uschind...@apache.org > Apache Lucene PMC Chair / Committer > Bremen, Germany > http://lucene.apache.org/ > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Mark Struberg [mailto:strub...@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 would >> also be >> of great help for a few ASF projects to detect any limitations and problems >> 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 <jfarr...@apache.org> >> >To: "builds@apache.org" <builds@apache.org>; Mark Struberg >> <strub...@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 slaves if >> possible. Is there an immediate need for this or can it wait till openjdk-8 >> is >> GA? >> > >> > >> >-Jake >> > >> > >> > >> >On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Mark Struberg <strub...@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 >> > >> > >> > > -- Olivier Lamy Ecetera: http://ecetera.com.au http://twitter.com/olamy | http://linkedin.com/in/olamy
