[7u communication] Plans for delivery of critical 7u fixes into CPU releases

[Phil Race]

I think I can see Mario's point/confusion.

The CPU-critical-request keyword is really just about what you'd like to 
see in Oracle's
next binary product release and isn't needed for OpenJDK since the fix 
is likely already
sitting in 7u-dev and just has to be pulled into the CPU binary release. 
OpenJDK doesn't
do binary releases, and anyone who wants to create a binary release 
based on OpenJDK 7
sources can do so any time they like based off 7u-dev without caring 
about Oracle
processes or releases.

So it comes down to whether external OpenJDK developers care what fixes 
Oracle
cares to take in its CPU releases besides security issues.

I think that at this point in time the basis for Oracle's next 7 CPU 
releases is 7u40 + selected fixes,
not 7u-dev + selected fixes. And prior to 7u40 GA it was something like 
7u10 + selected fixes ..
I'm not sure on that as I've lost track of when 7u-dev has been synced 
with the CPU train.

But I can also see that distros would generally want to align their 
releases to Oracle's binary
product releases. And that's particularly so when security releases come 
out. I'm not
sure if they already do (or want to) follow Oracle's basing them off the 
last non-CPU release.

But if they base it off 7u-dev then they'll be getting some what more 
'ahead' of Oracle's releases
in overall bug fixing at the risk of more regressions  until SQE ramps 
up testing for 7u60.

-phil.

On 10/17/2013 7:51 AM, Mario Torre wrote:
> 2013/10/17 Dalibor Topic <dalibor.topic at oracle.com>:
>> On 10/17/13 4:29 PM, Andrew wrote:
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> On 10/15/13 8:50 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
>>>>> What is the benefit to "OpenJDK 7u Authors, Committers and Reviewers" of
>>>>> using our valuable time
>>>>> to do this?
>>>> "inclusion into a CPU release before 7u60" "for" "critical fixes" "approved
>>>> by the Oracle JDK 7u CPU Release Team".
>>>>
>>> But you've just said there still isn't going to be OpenJDK CPU releases...
>>>
>> The Oracle JDK 7u CPU Release Team approves (or rejects) fixes for Oracle JDK 7u
>> CPU Releases.
> I'm not sure I understand why this is relevant for OpenJDK at all then.
>
>> Applicable changes are bulk integrated into OpenJDK 7u once an Oracle JDK 7u CPU
>> has been released, as was the case two days ago for 7u45.
> If people want to commit a [security related] patch they can already
> do so in OpenJDK (following the usual standard procedure).
>
> So what exactly changed? Just an easier way for people to send patches
> to Oracle for inclusion into the closed JDK?
>
> Cheers,
> Mario