Question on the "Updates Project" processes

[Volker Simonis]

Hi Rob,

yesterday you've pushed the security fixes for JDK 10.0.2 into the
jdk10u repository [2] but I haven't seen a "Request for approval" for
these changes as this has been requested for the corresponding
security updates in the jdk8u project [3]. Aren't such approvals
required any more for the new updates project?

Furthermore I've noticed that the "JDK Update Releases" page [4]
contains some rough estimations for the planned releases (e.g. "Jul
2018" for jdk 10.0.2). But as these dates are not very precise, would
it be possible to post some kind of "standardized" mails on this (or
another, dedicated mailing list) which announce the final availability
of each new update release (i.e. the landing of the security patches
in the corresponding repositories). This would greatly simplify the
work of down-stream projects which build/package OpenJDK update
releases.

Thank you and best regards,
Volker

[1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-updates-changes/2018-July/000044.html
[2] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk-updates/jdk10u
[3] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk8u-dev/2018-July/007668.html
[4] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk-updates/