Hi, On Wed, 2021-01-27 at 11:01 +0100, bruno.caballero@microdoc.com wrote:

Hello,

in the openjdk 8 for aarch64 port there is missing the General Availability tag "jdk8u282-ga" at the moment of writing this email.  see https://hg.openjdk.java.net/aarch64-port/jdk8u-shenandoah.

Yes, the -ga tag is missing, but when building from that repo the tag to consume would be aarch64-shenandoah-jdk8u282-b08 (which corresponds to jdk8u282-b08 in mainline + aarch64 + shenandoah bits). An possible - ga tag would only point to aarch64-shenandoah-jdk8u282-b08 anyway.

The last tag jdk8u282-b08 was created 11 days ago and looking at the mainline repo https://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/ repo, b08 was the last beta before the GA.

That's not quite right. jdk8u282-b08 is the GA tag for the 8u282 general available release: https://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/rev/57b8c4841602 Note: jdk8u282-ga points to jdk8u282-b08

Could anybody explain what is the process of deciding when to tag a version as GA for this particular port? Is anybody in charge of testing the version before doing it?

Looking at the history of aarch64-port/jdk8u-shenandoah it doesn't look like we did the -ga alias there. We'll consider adding it. Thanks! Red Hat uses the aarch64-port/jdk8u-shenandoah forest as a basis for OpenJDK 8 builds. GA tags undergo testing internally by us (including the TCK) before we deem a tag GA-worthy. That, of course, is on top of public testing that happens during the dev-cycle of new 8u update releases. Thanks, Severin