ea tags for the short lived jdk versions?

[Matthias Klose]

On 11.10.19 15:33, Dalibor Topic wrote:
> On 10.10.2019 23:52, Langer, Christoph wrote:
>> 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...
> 
> We don't publish EA builds of JDK 13 CPU updates so there wouldn't be anything 
> really meaningful to tag in the repo.

well, yes, that's what I see today.  No need to re-state the obvious ;)

If I do an ea build from the tip, then I get a build with the very same version, 
as the ga tag.  Which version should I use for that, inventing a mystery meat 
version? Just removing the ga flag?  Should I assume the version for the next 
release, and inventing one?  It's always good to test a build with all the stuff 
just before the security release.

Matthias