[11u]: 11.0.4 release schedule

[Andrew Haley]

On 4/24/19 11:01 AM, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
> On 4/24/19 11:47 AM, Langer, Christoph wrote:
>> I've now published the following schedule for 11.0.4 on the Wiki [0]:
>>
>>     March 2019: jdk11u-dev repo open (tag: jdk-11.0.4+0)
>>     Tuesday, April 30 2019: Branch jdk11u-dev to jdk11u
>>     Wednesday, May 1 2019: First build (tag: jdk-11.0.4+1)
>>     Wednesday, May 29 2019: RDP2
>>     Wednesday June 26 2019: Last tag before code freeze
>>     Tuesday, July 16 2019: GA (tag: jdk-11.0.4-ga)
>>
>> Is everyone in agreement with that?
>>
>> Note: It means that we'll branch next week from jdk11u-dev to jdk11u!
> 
> That also means outstanding 11.0.4-oracle things are better to get to 11u-dev within a week, right?
>   https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/issues/?filter=36409
> 
> I have my doubts about having 2.5 months gap between fork and release. That feels too early. Or
> maybe not, given there is a pending 13 freeze in between, and also summer vacations.

That feels early to me too. What will happen is a ton of jdk11u-critcial-requests
for trivial bugs, simply to get them into the next release.

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Andrew Haley
Java Platform Lead Engineer
Red Hat UK Ltd. <https://www.redhat.com>
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