Timeline for 11.0.4 development

[Lindenmaier, Goetz]

Hi Andrew,

I proposed the tagging date here, and didn't get any objections:
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-updates-dev/2019-February/000648.html

Monday is not good for me, Tuesday would work.
It's because I check our testing before I pick a change 
to tag.
Currently, on Tuesday I have a look whether the build of 
Monday evening is fine.  If not, I can try to do an emergency fix
on Tuesday working day.
Our infrastructure pulls on Tuesday evening, tests, 
and Wednesday morning I tag the change that was tested.
If I see severe regressions, I will open bugs.
On Wednesday, I merge the tag to jdk11u-dev, and Wednesday
evening build and tests start for jdk11u-dev with the new
tag merged. 
This I push on Thursday.

... I could do all this one day more early, starting Monday.

Further, on Mondays, every once in a while our machines
are down because IT did some 'harmless' maintenance to 
our servers on the weekend. Then we don't have builds or tests.

If you pick a fixed date, like 1st of the month, it's 
always a varying weekday.  This is confusing and 
not well aligned with a weekly tag.

Anyways, you can clone any day after the freeze 
was announced, this is not observable ��

Best regards,
  Goetz.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: jdk-updates-dev <jdk-updates-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net> On
> Behalf Of Andrew John Hughes
> Sent: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 6:40 PM
> To: jdk-updates-dev at openjdk.java.net
> Subject: Re: Timeline for 11.0.4 development
> 
> 
> 
> On 02/04/2019 08:38, Lindenmaier, Goetz wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I propose to explicitly state the following dates on
> > https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/JDKUpdates/JDK11u
> >
> > As for 11.0.3, I can do the builds, tests and tags proposed here
> > until RC phase.
> > JDK 11.0.4 timeline
> >
> >   *   March 2019 jdk11u-dev forest open
> >   *   Tuesday, April 30: Branch jdk11u-dev to jdk11u
> >   *   Wednesday, Mai 1 2019: Tag 11.0.4+1
> >   *   Wendesday, Mai 29 2019: Tag 11.0.4+5 RDP2
> >   *   Wednesday June 26 2019: Tag 11.0.4+9 RC phase (code freeze)
> >   *   Mid July 2019 GA
> >
> > JDK 11.0.5 timeline
> >
> >   *   Wednesday, Mai 1 2019 Tag 11.0.5+0 in jdk11u-dev, Forest open for
> development.
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> >   Goetz.
> >
> 
> I'm not sure what this is based on.
> 
> As previously stated, the freeze will be on the first working day of the
> month, so it will be Monday, 1st of July, 2019. The tag will depend on
> what the last one was at that point.
> 
> When was it determined that tags would be mid-week? That seems an odd
> time to me.
> --
> Andrew :)
> 
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