[7u communication] Changes to JDK 7u10 plans

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> 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.
> 

Right, but we want to move away from having this interim tree in the future.

> > 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.

So, are you now saying there *may* be some fixes in the proprietary u10 release
which are applicable to OpenJDK?  If this does happen, why would there not be a u10
release for them?

Also, why aren't there trees for e.g. u3, u5, etc. (the security CPUs)?

This gives the impression that 7u is not meant for direct use, but only as a basis
for something else like IcedTea, if we're going to have releases with no applicable
tree, or even tag, and security fixes are applied to a mid-stream feature release.

I'd really like to see a situation where, for all releases, there is a specific point
on a specific tree that can be used to download the source for that release, as in most
other FOSS projects.

> 
> cheers,
> dalibor topic
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Cheers,
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Andrew :)

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