Timeline for How to justify migration from Java 6 to Java 7?
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| Jul 22, 2013 at 20:46 | history | bounty awarded | gnat | ||
| Jul 17, 2013 at 2:38 | vote | accept | Jayan | ||
| Jul 16, 2013 at 15:05 | comment | added | gnat | @MichaelBorgwardt well, telling about that is somewhat tricky thing and it has more to do about being compelling rather than technically correct. I for one learned rather hard way to state stuff like that explicitly and clearly when there are guys "aginst the change". This kind of sends them signal, "we listen and share your concerns, and we worry too", makes them feel valued (as opposed to ignored)... and eventually leads to easier approval of the change :) | |
| Jul 16, 2013 at 14:58 | comment | added | Michael Borgwardt | @gnat: done, though I doubt the people who are against the migration need to be told about the need for testing and rather more than just smoke tests, too. There most definitely are sometimes serious incompatibilities. | |
| Jul 16, 2013 at 14:56 | history | edited | Michael Borgwardt | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 372 characters in body |
| Jul 16, 2013 at 14:17 | comment | added | gnat | Michael, would it make sense to add notes I mentioned (clarifications on compatibility and smoke testing) into your answer? for the sake of completeness so to speak | |
| Jul 16, 2013 at 7:56 | comment | added | jwenting | it's basically the only reason most companies will upgrade. | |
| Jul 16, 2013 at 7:41 | comment | added | gnat | that should be an accepted answer. EOL-date based reasoning has proven to work best for me whenever there was a need to justify particular product updates, particularly including Java. To complete justification, I would also add the note about backward binary compatibility (preferably backed up with some official Oracle statement) and a note about the need to smoke test the update (for the case of eg some unexpected dependencies on hardcoded references to version "6" in application configs) | |
| Jul 16, 2013 at 7:18 | history | answered | Michael Borgwardt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |