Reminder: file JDK 20 CSRs well ahead of anticipated early December 2022 rampdown deadline

[Joseph D. Darcy]

Now just one month to go until the proposed start of JDK 20 rampdown 1; 
get your JDK 20 CSRs in without delay!

-Joe

On 10/31/2022 2:51 PM, Joseph D. Darcy wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Per 
> https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/jdk-dev/2022-October/007108.html, 
> the proposed rampdown 1 of JDK 20 starts on December 8, 2022, less 
> than six weeks from today.
>
> An advanced reminder to factor in sufficient review time for any 
> projects needing CSR review before getting pushed into JDK 20, which 
> includes JEPs. Large projects, including JEPs, should often use the 
> two-phase CSR process (https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/csr/Main) 
> rather than the one-phase process. The nominal SLA for each CSR phase 
> is one week. To accommodate the possibility of needing to respond to 
> feedback from the CSR, I recommend a large project that has not 
> already had CSR review budget at least four weeks of CSR review time 
> ahead of a planned integration date.
>
> A JEP should have gone through the first phase of CSR review, getting 
> to Provisional state, before being Proposed to Target for a release.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Joe
> CSR Lead
>