Build and Integration schedule -- skip weeks

[Paul Hohensee]

Skip build 60 as you recommend.

paul

Mark Reinhold wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 08:20:13 -0700
>> From: xiomara.jayasena at sun.com
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>> I was under the impression that b60 was going to be the last build for
>> M3 and according to the Calendar here:
>> http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7/calendar/
>> it shows that b60 is the last build for M3.  Are we saying that b59 is
>> now going to be the last build in M3 then?
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> Build 60 is the last scheduled build for M3.  It's the showstopper build.
> If we need it, we'll do it; if we don't, then we'll skip it.  I suggest
> you leave 60 in the schedule until we make that decision.
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> If we skip 60 then that does raise the question of whether what's now
> called 61 should be renamed to 60, and so forth for all following builds.
> Personally I'd prefer to keep the present numbering and just document the
> fact that we skipped 60.  I tend to view build numbers as part of the
> calendar.  If you don't do something on a particular day then that
> doesn't mean you remove the day from the calendar, it just means that
> you do it on some later day.
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> What do others think?
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> - Mark
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