Java 12 / JDK 12: General Availability

[Lindenmaier, Goetz]

Hi Jesper, 

thanks a lot!  This will help us automatizing our release builds.

Best regards,
  Goetz

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jesper.wilhelmsson at oracle.com <jesper.wilhelmsson at oracle.com>
> Sent: Mittwoch, 20. März 2019 17:47
> To: mark.reinhold at oracle.com
> Cc: sean.coffey at oracle.com; Langer, Christoph <christoph.langer at sap.com>;
> Lindenmaier, Goetz <goetz.lindenmaier at sap.com>; jdk-dev at openjdk.java.net
> Subject: Re: Java 12 / JDK 12: General Availability
> 
> > On 20 Mar 2019, at 16:49, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
> >
> > // Dropping announce at ojn, since no one else’s e-mail client appears
> > // intelligent enough to do so
> >
> > 2019/3/20 7:10:12 -0700, jesper.wilhelmsson at oracle.com:
> >> I didn't see any actual decision on this. Is it enough that there is a
> >> bug filed in JBS and a mail thread with five or so people that thinks
> >> it is a good idea? Given that this is enough for most code changes
> >> that potentially could have a much larger impact on the OpenJDK maybe
> >> it's fine. I don't have an opinion here, I'm just curious as to how we
> >> make decisions in the OpenJDK.
> >
> > In the OpenJDK Community we generally make decisions by rough
> consensus,
> > except for situations explicitly identified in the Bylaws as requiring
> > formal votes.
> >
> > In any case, as the Lead of the JDK Project I endorse Seán’s original
> > proposal [1].
> >
> > Jesper -- since you handle promotion tagging for the main-line repo,
> > could you please also create the jdk-12-ga tag in that repo?  Thanks.
> 
> Done.
> 
> Will the tag propagate to jdk-updates/jdk12u or should I add it there as well?
> 
> Thanks,
> /Jesper
> 
> > - Mark
> >
> >
> > [1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2018-
> October/002004.html