[Libreoffice-qa] Minutes of ESC call: 2019-07-25

[Stephan Bergmann]

On 25/07/2019 17:34, Jan Holesovsky wrote:
> * Bump LO 6.4 Java baseline from Java 6 to 8? (Stephan)
>     + Only bumped from Java 5 to 6 for LO 6.3.
>     + But Java 12 is becoming ever more popular, with min target 7 (e.g.,
>       <https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/76188/> "Bump Java source and target
>       version to 1.7")
>     + Jumping directly to Java 8 sounds reasonable
>       (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history>).
>     + Java 8 is from 2014
>         + should be no reason to hold back
>     + is it necessary to do some work than adjusting the versions? (Miklos)
>         + just version + limitation for the JVM that we detect on the machine
>     => do it (Stephan)

<https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/76365/> "Bump Java baseline to Java 
8" and 
<https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/index.php?title=ReleaseNotes/6.4&oldid=183838> 
"Bump baseline to Java 8"