Question on the "Updates Project" processes

[Martijn Verburg]

Yes please (he says peering through long lists of tags for 3 hours today)
:-)

Cheers,
Martijn


On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 at 13:33, Seán Coffey <sean.coffey at oracle.com> wrote:

> 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/
>