[ahughes at redhat.com: Update Schedule]

[Edvard Wendelin]

Hi,

inline.

On 12/13/2011 01:01 AM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> Trying again, unsigned.
>
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> Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:16:01 +0000
> From: Dr Andrew John Hughes<ahughes at redhat.com>
> To: jdk7u-dev at openjdk.java.net
> Subject: Update Schedule
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>
> Hi all,
>
> What is the schedule for jdk7u releases?  And how is this decided?
In the JavaOne Strategy keynote there is a slide mentioning the JDK 
roadmap. The slide can be found on this blog. 
http://blogs.oracle.com/java/entry/moving_java_forward_java_strategy . 
Dalibor mentioned this in an email a few months back: 
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk7u-dev/2011-October/000534.html
>
> I see on:
>
> http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7/builds/
>
> that u2 is apparently tomorrow (first I've heard!) but there are no
> dates for future releases such as u4.
I've pinged the maintainer of the calendar. Hopefully we can get 7u4 
builds in there soon!
>
> If we are going to be working on the basis of release branches and
> different rules depending on the stage of a release, it would be
> preferable if such release dates were widely announced externally.
>
> Looking through:
>
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk7u-dev/
>
> I see very little discussion of the project, just a mountain of commit
> messages and approval requests.  As an non-Oracle OpenJDK developer,
> it's very hard to work out what's going on.  I'm aware of the process
> from http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7u/ but there doesn't seem
> to be anything on schedule decisions.  Help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,