RFR: JDK-8198303 - jdk11+1 was build with incorrect GA date as 2018-03-20

[joe darcy]

PS JDK 11 b02 bits now available for download:

     http://jdk.java.net/11/

Cheers,

-Joe

On 2/21/2018 5:47 PM, joe darcy wrote:
> On 2/21/2018 12:54 PM, Martin Buchholz wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 11:09 PM, Abhijit Saha <abhi.saha at oracle.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> It's a retroactive review request. Fix has been integrated after 
>>> reviewed
>>> internally.
>>>
>>> jdk11+1 (first build of jdk11) was promoted with incorrect Release 
>>> Date.
>>> Need to be updated with correct GA date as per internal release 
>>> roadmap.
>>>
>> Where are my shiny jdk11+1 binaries for download ?!
>>
>> It would be nice if version information was always correct, which would
>> mean part of the checklist of creating a release repo would be 
>> setting the
>> release date of jdk/jdk/ 6 months later and marking it "ea" and updating
>> the version to self-identify as java N+1.  jdk binaries built from 
>> jdk/jdk
>> have been misidentifying themselves since the jdk 10 repo was created.
>
> Certainly it would be preferable if the version update occurred sooner.
>
> However, binaries build from jdk/jdk have been correctly identifying 
> themselves as "JDK 11" since David Holmes pushed the fix for 8173401: 
> "Update VERSION_FEATURE for JDK 11" on February 6, 2018.
>
> There are about half a dozen distinct changes that need to occur for a 
> full conceptual version update going from JDK N to JDK (N+1). Besides 
> the actual version update, there are -source/-target changes to javac, 
> minor API changes, etc.
>
> Some of the changes made in JDK 11 b01 were done specifically to ease 
> future version updates. This included hardening various tests against 
> version updates. Since the version updates are happening more often 
> now, there is more motivation to streamline the process 
> (https://xkcd.com/1205/).
>
> -Joe