Question on the "Updates Project" processes

[Seán Coffey]

On the final availability issue, it would also be useful to start using mercurial tags to identify GA releases/builds. A suggestion that was made last year. I've been pinging ops team about relaxing jcheck restrictions but no joy so far.. See:

https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8180946

Sean.

On 19 July 2018 01:03:08 GMT+02:00, Rob McKenna <rob.mckenna at oracle.com> wrote:
>Hi Volker:
>
>On 18/07/18 15:50, Volker Simonis wrote:
>> 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?
>> 
>
>I'm in two minds about this. We've moved away from mailing list
>approvals for the jdk-updates project and it seems redundant to add the
>labels to these issues when they've already been through the critical
>request process, but perhaps I need to rethink that. Leave that with
>me.
>
>> 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.
>
>Yes, absolutely. I'll take an AI to send an automated notification when
>the security patches land in subsequent releases.
>
>    -Rob
>
>> 
>> 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/