[Updates Communication] Push approval criteria update

[Volker Simonis]

Hi Rob,

thanks for simplifying the down-port criteria to jdk11u. I think the
new rules are reasonable and much appreciated.

I'd like to propose another small enhancement which I think could be
useful for the OpenJDK community and especially for down-stream
distributions.

The "JDK Update Releases" page [1] mentions the following regarding
the "JDK Updates Release Schedules":

- The cutoff date for getting approved fixes into this first release
is approximately 5 weeks after the RDP2 date for the feature release.
- For the second jdk-updates release, the cutoff date is approximately
4 weeks after the GA date of the first update release.

I think it would be useful to announce these cutoff dates on the
mailing list a few days before they occur and communicate the exact
cutoff change after the internal security branches have been created.
This way, everybody knows which changes from the open jdkXXu repo will
make it into the next security update.

Am I right with my assumption, that after such a cutoff, neither
merges nor manual integrations from jdkXXu into the corresponding
jdkXXu-security branch will happen?

Thank you and best regards,
Volker

[1] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk-updates/
On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 5:33 PM Robert McKenna <rob.mckenna at oracle.com> wrote:
>
> Given the level of demand for getting fixes into the jdk11u train the
> maintainers have decided to redefine the approval criteria to the
> following:
>
> "Any reasonable fix which contributes to the stability, security
>  or performance of the affected line should be considered."
>
> I should note that fixes which meet the new criteria are not guaranteed
> approval but we certainly intend to approve more changes than we did
> under initial criteria with which the JDK Updates Project was set up.
>
> As a result of the change I've approved all pending requests. If you
> have an outstanding jdk11u-fix-request please check it for the jdk11u-
> fix-yes label and then proceed with your push to the jdk11u forest. [1]
>
> I have updated the project page to reflect the new changes. [2], [3]
>
>     -Rob
>
> [1] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk-updates/jdk11u/
> [2] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk-updates/
> [3] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk-updates/approval.html
>