Future jdk9u updates & 9-critical-request

[Rob McKenna]

Hi Martin,

Just a heads up to let you know these have been approved.

I'm planning to propose a new process around approvals soon which will
(hopefully) prevent a similar situation from occuring again.

    -Rob

On 12/01/18 11:37, Martin Buchholz 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
> >
> >