jdk11u 11.0.2 updates process/schedule for builds?

[Andrew Hughes]

On Fri, 7 Dec 2018 at 13:28, Volker Simonis <volker.simonis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 5:22 PM Rob McKenna <rob.mckenna at oracle.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 06/12/18 16:10, Andrew Leonard wrote:
> > > Thanks Rob, I think I am getting it now :-)
> > > So to summarize my understanding:
> > >     - jdk-updates/jdk11u  repo is available for openjdk community fixes to
> > > be contributed if deemed required for the next jdk11.0.2 release, but no
> > > regular builds are produced/tagged from that.
> > >     - <the internal jdk11u CPU security repo> where the security patches
> > > are developed, regularly merges in updates from the jdk-updates/jdk11u
> > > public repo, and it is in this internal repo where regular
> > > "builds"(tagged) are created by the internal team.
>
> I don't think this point is really correct. It is totally unclear
> which changes from jdk-updates/jdk11u are merged into the jdk11.0.2
> CPU repo. This is one of the problems I addressed in my previous mail.
> The other problem is that it is not obvious as well, at which exact
> point in time (i.e. from which exact change) jdk11.0.2 was initially
> forked. Therefor it is totally unclear which changes from
> jdk-updates/jdk11u will finally end up in 11.0.2 until the 11.0.2 CPU
> repo will be merged back into jdk11u.
>

I agree, and have just raised a similar response to the -ga tag being
added [0]. We really need a tag for the point where the cut-off occurs
for the next CPU. I proposed '-rdp2' in the previous e-mail, because
I believe that's what Oracle call this point, but I'm open to better
suggestions.

It would be good to see this adopted by Oracle for future updates and by
whomever takes over for 8u and 11u going forward. It's never been much
of a problem with 6 & 7, as they've been pretty low traffic, but I expect we'll
see 8u being significantly busier.

[0] https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-updates-dev/2019-January/000316.html

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew :)

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