JDK 11.0.3 Update process

[Langer, Christoph]

Hi Andrew,

> It does seem a bit early to me for 11.0.4, especially with the
> transition from Oracle ownership. I was expecting
> the branch to happen more around the time we received the security
> patches, but then I also feel that the lead
> time under Oracle was too long, leading to patches taking a long time
> to actually appear in releases. It really
> depends on what testing one wants to do prior to release.

I tend to agree. Maybe a good time to do the 11.0.4 switch (or subsequent patch release switches) is about 4 weeks before the planned release date.

For the community I guess it is important, that you at Redhat do the security patching based on the stabilized repository and are in a position to immediately merge the security changes back to the public repositories on the release day. All the downstream OpenJDK builds will rely on that.

So you have a certain degree of freedom to choose the timing for branching according to your needs.

Best regards
Christoph