On 26 March 2014 07:41, Mikolaj Izdebski <mizdebsk@redhat.com> wrote:
On 03/25/2014 06:45 PM, Omair Majid wrote:
> * Mikolaj Izdebski <mizdebsk@redhat.com> [2014-03-24 11:41]:
>> On 03/22/2014 06:15 AM, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
>>> Given the known large number of failures (OptionalJavadocs says "80% build
>>> failure rate" without saying that all are JavaDoc-related), we really
>>> should do a mass rebuild to identify which packages fail to build *and* to
>>> file bugs soonish, instead of waiting for a Fedora-wide mass rebuild and
>>> then scrambling to fix dozens/hundreds of build failures in to avoid
>>> slipping the schedule.  We don't necessarily need an official one, perhaps
>>> only in a never-to-be-merged side tag (or even scratch builds?)
>>
>> Agreed.
>
> Should I update the proposal to clarify that a mass rebuild is required,
> then?

I don't think that a mass rebuild is *required* for this feature.
Packages built with Java 7 should still work with Java 8.

Well having to deal with quite a few embedded hardware devices with java console apps which work in JDK 7 for FC19 but not JDK7 for FC20... one should never ever assume that some other programmer hasn't found a way to break Java's compatibility. I would say that there needs to be something a bit larger than a rebuild but a mass test so that you end up with finding out that someone's hack to make java-7 do something neat isn't java-8 runtime saying 'crash'.
 

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