Future jdk9u updates & 9-critical-request

[Martijn Verburg]

Hi Martin,

The Community build farm at AdoptOpenJDK.net may be able to help here.  Let
me know if you’d like further info.

Cheers,
Martijn

On Fri, 12 Jan 2018 at 19:38, Martin Buchholz <martinrb at google.com> wrote:

> Hi Rob,
>
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 7:19 AM, Rob McKenna <rob.mckenna at oracle.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Martin,
> >
> > I see you've added the 9-critical-request label to several bugs lately.
> > This is just a heads up to let you know that as Oracle has no plans to
> > release further updates to JDK9 [1] then these labels will be have no
> > effect until a new project maintainer steps forward.
> >
>
> I think I was confused by the End Of Updates being March 2018; I expected a
> last update just before End Of Updates.
>
> I'm not sure whether we will have a new jdk9 updates maintainer step
> forward.  I'll ask around.  Some combination of folks from Google, Red Hat,
> Azul, etc might make it work.
>
> Can I get my own personal jdk9u hosted at
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk-updates/9jdku-SOME-GOOD-NAME
> to park my backport patches even if don't commit to owning jdk9 updates?
>
> Can we get help from Oracle to run cross-platform tests on arbitrary trees
> like jdk9u in the future (e.g. via jprt) even if Oracle itself no longer
> supports that particular tree?
>
>
> >     -Rob
> >
> > [1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-updates-dev/
> > 2017-November/000024.html
> >
> >
>
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