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Rory O'Donnell Oracle, Dublin Ireland rory.odonnell at oracle.com
Fri Jan 17 12:14:10 PST 2014


Jonathan,

javadoc issue logged : https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8032205

Rgds,Rory


On 14/01/2014 14:38, Rory O'Donnell Oracle, Dublin Ireland wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> With regard to your javadoc issues, I am cc'ing the javadocs mailing 
> list.
>
> Rgds, Rory
>
>
> On 13/01/2014 19:36, Robert Scholte wrote:
>> Hi Rory,
>>
>> The Apache Maven team has introduced a wiki page[1] to keep track of 
>> JDK8 specific issues.
>> These are results when we started to build+test all our plugins with 
>> JDK8.
>>
>> We see that the javadoc executable has become stricter.
>> Especially the "reference not found" is tricky, since there's a good 
>> chance the sources are from a dependency, something we cannot change. 
>> The only workaround I could find was adding a excludePackageNames for 
>> the specific class, but this will exclude all classes of that package
>> Another issue with the javadoc executable is that the 
>> excludedocfilessubdir argument is ignored (on Win7). This seems to be 
>> regression.
>>
> snip
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> Robert
>>
>> [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/Java+8+Upgrade
>> [2] https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MJARSIGNER-30
>>
>> Op Mon, 06 Jan 2014 12:16:33 +0100 schreef Rory O'Donnell Oracle, 
>> Dublin ireland <rory.odonnell at oracle.com>:
>>
>>> Hi Kristian,
>>>
>>> Thank you for your comments.
>>>
>>> On 01/ 3/14 02:12 PM, Kristian Rosenvold wrote:
>>>> We found the issue already, thanks for the bump in priority !
>>> no problem.
>>>> The jdk issue tracker does not allow us much in the way of features
>>>> (like issue watching !)
>>> Yes, there is room for improvement there. In the mean time Dalibor 
>>> wrote
>>> in his blog about tracking your issues
>>> In The JDK Bug System: http://robilad.livejournal.com/139637.html
>>>>
>>>> There is a comment I'd like to make about the issue comment of us
>>>> reporting this issue "6 months ago". 6 months ago was M7, labeled as
>>>> "feature complete" according to the JDK8 plan. Our code base is *huge*
>>>> and there's a fair amount of weird stuff going on, and I think most of
>>>> us on the maven team are reluctant to start testing with something
>>>> that is "just" feature complete.
>>>>
>>> I think Alan's comment was more wishful thinking, finding bugs early is
>>> in everyone's interest.
>>>> Finding and reporting this *one* issue took quite some effort, since
>>>> we're usually talking about tests written for *other* purposes that
>>>> break; and they break in weird places & highly unexpected manners. So
>>>> realistically we're testing at the earliest level we're comfortable
>>>> with (which I find is M8-ish). Less complex projects are probably a
>>>> bit more risk-willing than us :)
>>> I would love to discuss your testing with you in detail?
>>>>
>>>> We have quite some momentum in our jdk8 testing now, and there's quite
>>>> a few of us who seem intent on verifying *everything*
>>>> in good time before GA.
>>> Delighted to hear that!
>>>
>>> Obviously, the later bugs are found the more likely they will get fixed
>>> in an update release.
>>>
>>>> I know I'll be picking up the verification once JDK-8030781
>>>> <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8030781> gets released into
>>>> a nightly.
>>> Thanks, Rory
>>>>
>>>> Kristian
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2014/1/3 Rory O'Donnell Oracle, Dublin Ireland
>>>> <rory.odonnell at oracle.com <mailto:rory.odonnell at oracle.com>>
>>>>
>>>>     Hi Kristian,
>>>>
>>>>     I am following sun bug 9009028,
>>>>     https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8030781
>>>>
>>>>     Rgds,Rory
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     On 31/12/2013 20:38, Kristian Rosenvold wrote:
>>>>>     Been meaning to answer this mail for a few days, but I've been
>>>>>     far too busy skiing in the norwegian mountains :)
>>>>>
>>>>>     We have some fairly extensive tests and integration tests that
>>>>>     would, to a large extent, also function as a verification of jdk8
>>>>>     compatibility. Unfortunately most of them get stuck at sun bug
>>>>>     9009028, which I filed about a week ago. So while this bug is
>>>>>     open, it may hide other problems. So with my "tester" hat on; we
>>>>>     have one known bug that potentially hides interesting stuff.
>>>>>
>>>>>     Kristian
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>     2013/12/30 Rory O'Donnell Oracle, Dublin Ireland
>>>>>     <rory.odonnell at oracle.com <mailto:rory.odonnell at oracle.com>>
>>>>>
>>>>>         Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>>         I am from the OpenJDK QA group at Oracle, and I'm trying to
>>>>>         get an idea about how much community
>>>>>         testing is happening on JDK 8 EA builds (either those
>>>>>         published by Oracle, or your own) and to encourage
>>>>>         more of it to happen see:
>>>>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/quality-discuss/2013-November/000152.html 
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>         I'm curious if you have begun testing against JDK 8 or JDK
>>>>>         7u60 EA builds, if you've run into showstopper
>>>>>         issues, and if you'd like to continue to discuss the subject
>>>>>         on the quality-discuss mailing list in OpenJDK,
>>>>>         of course.
>>>>>
>>>>>         I am aware of
>>>>>         https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8030781 , if there
>>>>>         are any other issues please let
>>>>>         me know.
>>>>>
>>>>>         JDK 8 Build b121 Early Access Build is now available for
>>>>>         download <http://jdk8.java.net/download.html> & test.
>>>>>         JDK 7u60 b02 Early Access Build is also available for
>>>>>         download <https://jdk7.java.net/download.html>& test.
>>>>>
>>>>>         Rgds,Rory
>>>>>
>>>>>         --
>>>>>         Rgds,Rory O'Donnell
>>>>>         Quality Engineering Manager
>>>>>         Oracle EMEA , Dublin, Ireland
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     --
>>>>     Rgds,Rory O'Donnell
>>>>     Quality Engineering Manager
>>>>     Oracle EMEA , Dublin, Ireland
>>>>
>>>>
>>
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Rgds,Rory O'Donnell
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