OpenJDK 7u4 End game

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> Hi,
> 
> Last Thursday we published the latest early access build of the
> Oracle JDK 7u4 [1]. As I've mentioned in my past updates [2], the
> teams are now focusing on fixing bugs found by the community, QA or
> by the development teams.
> 
> I'd like to welcome you to test the latest Oracle JDK, or your own
> OpenJDK [3] build, and report bugs through bugs.sun.com. The sooner
> the bug reports are filed, the more likely it is that the issues
> will be fixed in time for the release :) There is still about a
> month or so left where critical bugs can be fixed.
> 
> Cheers,
> Edvard
> 
> [1] http://jdk7.java.net/download.html
> [2]
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk7u-dev/2012-February/001900.html
> [3] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u
> 

What's the tag at the point where the 7u trees was branched to create the 7u4
trees?  I can't see an obvious one on http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u/jdk/shortlog

> On Feb 14, 2012, at 10:27 PM, Edvard Wendelin wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > By now the feature work for 7u4 is basically done and the Mac OS X
> > port is in the master forest. We're now looking at a period where
> > the main focus is around bug fixing. A good way to help out is by
> > testing the latest early access builds, available on the
> > jdk7.java.net site [1]. As always, you can also build the source
> > yourself, if you so prefer!
> > 
> > On February 24th, we plan to create the jdk7u4 stabilisation
> > forest. It will be a copy of the jdk7u master. Any fixes targeted
> > for jdk7u4 needs to go into jdk7u4-dev after this point.The code
> > freeze for Lana's last integration before the 24th is Feb 15th 2
> > pm PT.
> > 
> > For fixes you want to include in jdk7u4 after Feb 23rd, you will
> > need what's called critical fix approval. What that basically
> > means is that quality, development and release management says OK
> > to a particular fix. For those of you who can't edit bugs in the
> > current bug database, please reach out to me and I'll help with
> > the approval process. The details I need are:
> > 
> > * CR number you are working on
> > * a motivation why this fix is important for JDK 7u4
> > * what potential risks the fix could introduce
> > 
> > I'll add a template to the project page where I add this
> > information.
> > 
> > If you are working on a fix that is not critical for 7u4, please
> > continue using jdk7u-dev. As we move off jdk7u for 7u4, there will
> > be 7u6 builds from jdk7u starting sometime end of February/early
> > March.
> > 
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Edvard
> > 
> > [1] http://jdk7.java.net/download.html
> > 
> > On Jan 19, 2012, at 10:56 PM, Edvard Wendelin wrote:
> > 
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> We are now at a point in the 7u4 project where we have a
> >> reasonably good understanding on what the end game will look
> >> like. I'd therefore like to outline the activities in the coming
> >> months. I would also like to remind you that these plans could
> >> and probably will change before the release is out the door.
> >> 
> >> We expect that feature development will be completed by the end of
> >> January. After that the focus will turn to bug fixing. During
> >> this period of time, SQE will report bugs to development. We
> >> expect that the vast majority of bugs have been reported by early
> >> March. During the remainder of the month we will work on the bugs
> >> still targeted to the release. By the end of March there
> >> shouldn't be any bugs targeted to 7u4. We will continuously go
> >> through the open bugs and focus our efforts on the most important
> >> ones. Some bugs will end up being deferred to JDK 7u6.
> >> 
> >> Sometime in February, JDK 7u4 will move to a new forest called
> >> jdk7u/jdk7u4. This is where we will stabilize the release and all
> >> subsequent builds of 7u4 will be built from this forrest. This
> >> means that jdk7u/jdk7u-dev remains open for changes. Anything
> >> integrated after we create jdk7u/jdk7u4 will be included in JDK
> >> 7u6.
> >> 
> >> By the time we are through feature complete and have a better idea
> >> on the amount of bugs open against 7u4, I will update you on what
> >> the last month will look like.
> >> 
> >> Cheers,
> >> Edvard
> > 
> 
> 

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Andrew :)

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