New informational JEP: 14: The Tip & Tail Model of Library Development

[Karsten Silz]

I have two questions about tail releases.

First, Alex Buckley clarified that not ALL tail releases must survive the next tip release. In OpenJDK, three out of four don't. But must at least ONE tail release outlast the next tip release every X years to qualify the library for "tip & tail"? After all, the JEP "does not specify when or why tail trains are created, nor when or why they are discontinued."

Second, can a library publish a bug fix release on the tip train? Or is that automatically a tail release?


Regards,
Karsten Silz


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