JDK 11.0.3 Update process

[Rob McKenna]

On 18/02/19 19:05, Volker Simonis wrote:
> I'm fine with the wording in Rob's "request template" (thanks for
> providing it!). I think it expresses exactly what we've proposed so
> far.
> 
> It actually means that once it is executed, all the 11-update
> downports will have to go to "jdk11u-dev" repository and will be
> scheduled for 11.0.4. Only the changes which are already in 11u at the
> time of cloning will automatically become part of 11.0.3.
> 
> We will have to somehow communicate this fact very prominently (or
> maybe even restrict commits to 11u for some time) because until now
> all the downports for 11-updates went into 11u. 11-update downporters
> will have to adjust their habit once we have jdk-updates/jdk11u-dev!
> 
> Besides that, I have another question which I kindly ask Rob to answer :)
> 
> > In addition to this I would like to request that the fix versions for
> > hgupdater be set to:
> >
> > jdk-updates/jdk11u-dev: 11.0.4
> > jdk-updates/jdk11u: 11.0.3
> 
> Once this is done, how best proceed with a change (say a P1) which
> needs to go into both 11.0.3 and 11.0.4. My idea was to downport it
> directly to jdk-updates/jdk11u and regularly push from
> jdk-updates/jdk11u to jdk-updates/jdk11u-dev. Is this the way it was
> previously done at Oracle?

No, we always push to the always-open repo first. (in this case the
11.0.4 repo) After examining the risk of the fix / impact to testing, if
an issue is approved for the rampdown release it is hg export / imported
to that repo.

    -Rob

> 
> The other possiblity would be to instantly downport it to both
> jdk-updates/jdk11u and jdk-updates/jdk11u-dev. But in the end, this
> would leave us (after 11.0.3 will be merged back into
> jdk-updates/jdk11u) with two different instances of the same change in
> jdk11u-dev and all subsequent releases. I think that would be not very
> nice and quite confusing. If possible I'd like to avoid that.
> 
> Thanks for your support,
> Volker
> 
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 6:01 PM Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 2/18/19 4:22 PM, Rob McKenna wrote:
> > > Correct me if I have the wrong fix versions here, but the following email
> > > should suffice for both requests:
> >
> > Thanks. I'll wait for an ACK from someone else contributing to this discussion,
> > then send the request.
> >
> > --
> > Andrew Haley
> > Java Platform Lead Engineer
> > Red Hat UK Ltd. <https://www.redhat.com>
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