[11u]: 11.0.4 release schedule

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 24/04/2019 14:10, Andrew Haley wrote:
> 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.
> 

Me three. I thought RDP2 was the branch point. The above schedule
suggests pretty much all work on each update is done in a branch.

With working on the last releases, I haven't had much time to consider
the next ones yet at all.
-- 
Andrew :)

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