Tags for promoted builds

[Yuri Nesterenko]

By the way, how about tagging, say, moment of a certain PIT build?
Returning to this point may be necessary in situations with performance
bugs (for instance). 

Thanks,
-Yuri

On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 09:51:28AM -0800, Xiomara.Jayasena at Sun.COM wrote:
> 
> What you see below was just for practice.  I had some discussions around 
> this in RE and with Kelly and the conclusion was that it would be 
> jdk7-bNN as you are suggesting.  I will also tag specific milestones as 
> mentioned below.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Xiomara
> 
> 
> Mark Reinhold wrote:
> 
> >>Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 04:27:39 +0000
> >>From: xiomara.jayasena at sun.com
> >>   
> >>
> >
> > 
> >
> >>Changeset: 2e4d6d562de7
> >>Author:    xdono
> >>Date:      2007-11-09 20:03 -0800
> >>URL:       http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/tl/rev/2e4d6d562de7
> >>
> >>Added tag jdk7-ea-b99 for changeset 8792e7dbf130
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >The problem with this tag format, which is based on our ancient
> >bundle-naming scheme, is that the middle token changes over time,
> >from "ea" to "beta" to (maybe) "beta2" to "rc" to "fcs".  This
> >makes it unnecessarily difficult to look up a changeset for a
> >specific build -- you also need to know in which phase of the
> >release cycle it was promoted.
> >
> >I think it'd make more sense to use simple "jdk7-bNN" tags, and
> >then also tag specific milestones as "jdk7-beta", "jdk7-rc1",
> >"jdk7-fcs", etc.
> >
> >- Mark
> > 
> >
>