Preparation of update releases

[Alan Bateman]

On 19/10/2018 15:07, Volker Simonis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> after 11.0.1 has been successfully released I'd like to describe some
> of my observations on how this release has been prepared and suggest
> some improvements to the process:
>
> - I first, naively expected that 11.0.1 will only contain security
> fixes (i.e. the fixes circulated and discussed on the vuln-dev mailing
> list)
> - in the end I was a little surprised that in addition to the ~20
> security fixes 11.0.1 also contained ~130 other changes
> - so in the end 11.0.1 is not strictly speaking a "security release"
> but more a kind of combined "security" and "maintenance" release.
> - because 11.0.1 was prepared in a hidden clone inside Oracle, it is
> hard for others to understand which of the changes in jdk11u will also
> be integrated into 11.0.1. (I know I can list all the issues fixed in
> 11.0.1 in JBS, but this gives me more than 1000 changes which is not
> near the additional ~130 changes which are in 11.0.1 compared to 11).
>
I don't know what these additional 130 issues are. Can you share your 
JBS query or hg command that you are using? It would also be useful to 
see what this give you:

project = jdk and fixVersion = 11.0.1 and  "Resolved In Build" is not 
EMPTY and labels != hgupdate-sync

-Alan