You can't comment on the tickets, but they do want your feedback on their Verona message board: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/verona-dev
Cheers, Paul On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 1:05 PM, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Am I blind or can someone point out how to comment on a JEP? The JEP is > linked to https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8061493 but how do you > get an account on that? > > I recall hearing a preso on how the comments for Java were locked down for > fear of too much feedback... or something. > > Gary > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 8:24 AM, Paul Benedict <pbened...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > If this issue has been raised in the past, my apologies. I did a search > for > > "Verona" in the mail archives here and didn't see any hit besides > Oracle's > > own notification [1]. That was the only hit. > > > > In JDK 9, the version string is changing from 1.0.X to bigger numbers > like > > 9.0.0 [2]. Code that has assumed the 1.x pattern for parsing the version > > string will likely fail or behave strangely. Apache Commons will be one > of > > these libraries [3]. I already notified the Log4J community that Log4J > 1.x > > is also affected. So this is just an FYI for any Commons project that is > > relying on the Version string. > > > > The slew of Apache Commons sub-projects are likely baked into many > > applications. So what does Verona's change mean in practice to all you > > here? Any concerns on Verona? This is the time to speak up to Oracle with > > any feedback you may have. > > > > [1] http://markmail.org/message/t3l7d73tmqslkele > > [2] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/223 > > [3] > > > > > https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-lang/javadocs/api-3.4/src-html/org/apache/commons/lang3/SystemUtils.html#line.952 > > > > Cheers, > > Paul > > > > > > -- > E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org > Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition > <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> > JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> > Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> > Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com > Home: http://garygregory.com/ > Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory >
