Build and Integration schedule -- skip weeks

[Paul Hohensee]

Could also just build b60 to be identical to b59.  I.e., the only difference
between b59 and b60 bundles would be the build number.

Paul

Joseph D. Darcy wrote:
> Mark Reinhold wrote:
>>> Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 08:20:13 -0700
>>> From: xiomara.jayasena at sun.com
>>>     
>>
>>  
>>> 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?
>>>     
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> What do others think?
>>
>>
>>   
>
> I'd prefer to renumber b61 to b60 is b60 is skipped.
>
> I think it is less confusing long term to have the build numbers be a 
> dense consective sequence of integers.
>
> -Joe
>