[7u communication] Changes to JDK 7u10 plans

[Henri Gomez]

> We don't have a forest for each Oracle JDK release, only for OpenJDK 7u releases
> that are developed in this Project.

Of course, but creating a branch should be cheap and is mandatory for releases.

> As prominently stated on our web page, "The goal of this Project is to
> develop updates to JDK 7." Note that it doesn't say 'develop security updates'.

Dangerous sentence here, please don't let users think the OpenJDK 7/8
could be less secure than JDK7/8 ;(

>> I'm not talking about users so much as having a source release that distros
>> can take and build, just like about every other FOSS project.
>
> See http://jdk7.java.net/source.html for that.
>
>> This only lists u6.  There is nothing at all for e.g. u5.
>
> That is correct. There was no 7u5 release being developed within this Project, so
> accordingly no separate source code bundle was published for it.

Did security fixes will be included in jdk7u as soon as they will be in JDK 7 ?