ea tags for the short lived jdk versions?

[Langer, Christoph]

Hi Matthias,

which repository exactly do you mean for jdk13? If you look at http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk-updates/jdk13u/, you'll definitely find a lot of differences compared to the jdk13 release repo http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/jdk13/.

But the tip of jdk-updates/jdk13u is on a 13.0.2 development level currently and it's hard to tell what the baseline for 13.0.1 was (e.g. there is no tag). You can refer to this mail for figuring out the closest commit to the upcoming 13.0.1: https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-updates-dev/2019-September/001814.html 

Unfortunately, there are no build tags (yet) for certain update releases, e.g. 13.0.1-n or 13.0.2-n. They'll only be merged back from the internal Oracle repositories that are used to build the update releases after GA of an update release. I, however, agree that it would be nicer if OpenJDK Update release development could be done more in the open by Oracle and we could see regular tags (just as we have in 8u and 11u OpenJDK projects). But I guess Oracle would need to change their processes a bit for that. Maybe Rob wants to comment on it...

Best regards
Christoph

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jdk-dev <jdk-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net> On Behalf Of Matthias
> Klose
> Sent: Donnerstag, 10. Oktober 2019 12:06
> To: jdk-dev <jdk-dev at openjdk.java.net>
> Subject: ea tags for the short lived jdk versions?
> 
> With the LTS branches, you have a new well defined pre-release process,
> leading
> to the release.  With the development branch (14), you have weekly tags.
> However with the short lived jdk versions (13 in this case), there is nothing
> comparable.  The current tip of jdk-updates/jdk13 still has the release
> settings
> on the branch, and no version different from the release.  Would it be
> possible
> to have such ea tags on the short lived branches as well?
> 
> Thanks, Matthias