[10u-communication] jdk10u forest & process changes

[Severin Gehwolf]

Hi Rob,

On Fri, 2018-03-02 at 18:57 +0000, Rob McKenna wrote:
> As we move into the second update release in the JDK Updates Project
> we'd like to apply some of the lessons learned over the past couple of
> months.
> 
> The first, of course, was the changes to the maintainership process [1].
> 
> Also, from now on fixes pushed to the jdk-updates repo will have a fix
> version in the following format: <release>u-open. I.e. 10u-open in the
> case of jdk10u. Once the fix has been approved for inclusion in an update
> release, a corresponding bug record with the correct update release
> version will be created. (e.g. 10.0.1)
> 
> In addition to this we would like to bring the critical request process
> inline with the JDK project. As such we will be adopting the convention
> for RDP2 critical requests from that project [2]. I.e. instead of
> 10-critical-request / 10-critical-approved we'll move to
> jdk10u-fix-request / jdk10u-fix-yes. [3]

It looks like the example in [3] still has the old syntax "e.g. jdk10u-
critical-request" vs. "e.g. jdk10u-fix-request".

Thanks,
Severin

> So, without further ado, the JDK 10 Updates forest is now available at:
> 
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk-updates/jdk10u/
> 
> On a side note, you can find information on Oracle's plans for changes
> to the security algorithms and associated policies/settings in JDK 10
> updates at https://java.com/en/jre-jdk-cryptoroadmap.html, along with
> instructions enabling users to proactively test/enable these changes before
> they are enabled by default. Please do keep in mind that such information
> is subject to change.
> 
>     -Rob
> 
> [1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-updates-dev/2018-February/000064.html
> [2] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/10/fix-request-process
> [3] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk-updates/approval.html
>