[10u-communication] jdk10u forest & process changes

[Rob McKenna]

Thanks Severin, should be fixed in a few minutes!

    -Rob

On 06/04/18 17:58, Severin Gehwolf wrote:
> 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
> >