Future jdk9u updates & 9-critical-request

[Rob McKenna]

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On 13/01/18 09:03, Martijn Verburg wrote:
> 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?

At this time, we don't host personal forests/repos on hg.openjdk.java.net.
You would need to look for an alternative solution.

> >
> > 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?

Work is happening on getting open build and test infrastructure together.
(for example, the AdoptOpenJDK project mentioned by Martijn) I'm hoping to
see progress on that front in 2018.

    -Rob

> >
> >
> > >     -Rob
> > >
> > > [1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-updates-dev/
> > > 2017-November/000024.html
> > >
> > >
> >
> -- 
> Cheers, Martijn (Sent from Gmail Mobile)