[jdk11u-dev] RFR: 8269415: [11u] Remove ea from DEFAULT_PROMOTED_VERSION_PRE in OpenJDK 11u

[Christoph Langer]

On Mon, 28 Jun 2021 08:59:17 GMT, Severin Gehwolf <sgehwolf at openjdk.org> wrote:

> I'm not sure this is the right move. 11.0.13 (which corresponds to the jdk11u-dev tree) is "Early Access" for all intents and purposes at this time. It should be removed for the `-ga` tag only and then added back if you'd ask me.

Well, my motivation for this change is mainly consistency. For instance in [16u](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk16u/blob/master/make/autoconf/version-numbers) you also find 'DEFAULT_PROMOTED_VERSION_PRE=', without it being changed back and forth in its history. We have never changed such type of release data in the source code so far and I think it's neither feasible nor the right thing to do, given that we use tags for releases.

I'm inclined to read this value like 'ea' designates the major release to be still in development.

After all, this property is only used in Oracle CI builds so far.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk11u-dev/pull/72