I've been running my Commons bot tasks on a personal server and would like to migrate those tasks to tool labs. I updated my code to take advantage of new Java 8 features back in March, but seeing how tool labs is still using Java version 7, I cannot migrate my tools.
With that said, is it possible to have a developer release of JDK/JRE 8 installed on labs?
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| tools: Add jdk-8 to trusty nodes | operations/puppet | production | +2 -0 |
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-8/+bug/1341628 says no openjdk8 package for even the latest LTS, so this is going to be a while :(
Change 181548 had a related patch set uploaded (by Yuvipanda):
tools: Add jdk-8 to trusty nodes
We have a trusty package thanks to T78267, but it might or might not be maintained depending on wether we end up using Titan or not. I shall -2 my patch until that is determined.
As mentionedin T85964 the JDK 8 package was rolled back, since Titan wasn't under consideration anymore. It could be backported from utopic now (http://packages.ubuntu.com/utopic/openjdk-8-jdk), not sure how supported that will be.
While I can see the appeal of the latest-and-greatest, it is not reasonable for us to maintain a major revision of a JDK if it has no support from the distribution for the foreseeable future.