Tagging proposal for JDK GA releases

[Volker Simonis]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 10:23 PM Andrew Hughes <gnu.andrew at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 15 Jan 2019 at 18:57, Seán Coffey <sean.coffey at oracle.com> wrote:
> >
> > Note that the JDK 8u201/8u202 sources were pushed today and included the
> > new jdk8uxxx-ga style mercurial tags for the first time. (Thanks Aleksei).
> >
> > This should be useful for frameworks in the future to help detect GA
> > availability etc.
> >
> > regards,
> > Sean.
> >
>
> That does make things easier in deciding what tag is the final one, especially
> when we tend to get ones after GA (e.g. jdk8u192-b25, jdk8u201-b79).
>
> Following this CPU, I do have a request for another new tag. There seems to be
> no tag in the updates tree for when it is branched for the next release. A
> jdk8uxxx-rdp2/jdk-xx.0.x-rdp2 would be most welcome. I noticed with 11 this
> time, that I ended up having to manually apply a bunch of non-security fixes
> that were in the jdk-updates tree, but there was no way to pull them in
> through a defined tag. Having *-rdp2 as a base for applying CPU patches
> ahead of time would be helpful and ensure our final version is closer to
> what Oracle eventually push upstream.

+1

>
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