[7u communication] Changes to JDK 7u10 plans

[Dalibor Topic]

On 10/1/12 12:24 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> So, as I understand it,
> * There won't be a new non-security update release until u12 (March-April 2013?)

Yeah - the next OpenJDK 7u release is now planned for next year.

> * There'll be proprietary Oracle binaries called 7u10 but no OpenJDK equivalent

Yes.

> * The October and February security CPUs will be added to the main 7u tree.

Yes.

> Are there any plans for OpenJDK security releases? 

No, not as separate releases. 

> We're obviously going to have to do security releases before then, and can by patching our own IcedTea trees. 

Yes, that would be the best course of action.

> If we were using 7u directly, it's not clear what we would base those on, 
> as we don't want to pull in partial development on 7u12.

Yeah, I understand.

Oracle's JDK releases have release notes, which for non-CPU releases include a list of fixes by their area and issue, 
so if you for example look at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/2col/7u6-bugfixes-1733378.html
you can see the list of fixes that went into Oracle's JDK 7u6 release, including the fixes originating in this OpenJDK
Project's 7u6 release. 

Similarly, I would expect Oracle's JDK 7u10 release to have release notes, with a list of fixes, so that once it's released you 
could pull the corresponding chagesets out of jdk7u-dev (assuming there would be any fixes in Oracle 7u10 applicable to OpenJDK 7u 
to begin with, of course) and push them into an IcedTea forest, for example.

cheers,
dalibor topic
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