[Updates Communication] Push approval criteria update

[Rob McKenna]

On 15/10/18 09:29, Volker Simonis wrote:
> 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.

Yep - leave this with me.

> 
> 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?

Yes.

    -Rob

> 
> 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
> >