[13u-communication] End of maintenance & invitation for new maintainers

[Yuri Nesterenko]

Thank You.

I would like to nominate myself to the role of lead maintainer of the
OpenJDK 13u Updates forest. I have been working on Java and OpenJDK
development for quite some time. I have actively participated in
development of AWT and as a Reviewer in JDK, JDK Updates and several
other OpenJDK projects. In my role as lead maintainer for 13u, I
anticipate the backing of several other OpenJDK Updates committers
currently employed at Azul, who have been actively contributing to 11u,
8u, and 7u updates, as well as any others who wish to join in the effort.

As some of you already know, Azul plans to continue building quarterly
community updates for OpenJDK 13 under what we have been referring to as
"MTS" (Mid Term Support) releases. Rather than providing a long term
support horizon, MTS releases are intended to provide an update overlap
window of 18 months with the next LTS release (presumably JDK 17). The
key purpose of MTS updates is to increase the likelihood of production
adoption of releases between LTSs, allow users to more quickly adopt new
capabilities introduced with Feature releases, and increase the
production-based feedback and bug flow that can hopefully make the next
LTS even better. By committing to provide updates until 18 months after
the next LTS comes out, we expect to increase the production adoption of
MTS releases, as end users can expect community updates to continue to
arrive until well after the next LTS is mature, stable, and can be
transitioned to for production use at low risk.

We anticipate our first planned 13u MTS update to be April 2020. Likely
using the update version 13.0.3. As such, we have chosen to commit the
appropriate resources to do this work, and intend to maintain continuity
for OpenJDK's JDK 13u, much like it has for JDK 11u. We would be happy
see others join in the 13u effort as well.

We have immediate plans to backport some 220+ changes already ported to
JDK 11u and maintain security level on par with other update releases.
Having a rather tight schedule, it may be not prudent to add all the bug
backports to the April, 14  update but we hope to see all of them in by
July.

Yuri Nesterenko (http://openjdk.java.net/census#yan)

--yan

On 18.02.2020 20:09, Rob McKenna wrote:
> I'm sending this mail to notify the community that the current maintainers
> intend to step down as maintainers for the JDK 13 Updates forest [1] at the
> end of March, or sooner, if new maintainers were to step up. [2]
>
> This being the case we would like to invite prospective new maintainers to
> step forward at this point to ensure a smooth transition should they wish to
> maintain this forest beyond the end of March.
>
>       -Rob
>
> [1] https://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk-updates/jdk13u
> [2] https://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk-updates/maintainers.html