[7u-communication] Future Plans for JDK 7 Updates 7u60 & 7u80

[Francis ANDRE]

Hi Dalibor
Le 10/01/2014 22:11, Dalibor Topic a écrit :
> With 7u60 development moving ahead at a steady pace, and JDK 8u and JDK 9 Projects ramping up, it's a good time
> to take a look ahead at the subsequent 7u release. Our development model in JDK 7 Updates allows us to accumulate
> fixes for future releases in the -dev forest, while working on the next release in a separate stabilization forest.
>
> The next release after 7u60 in this Project would be 7u80.
>
> JDK 7u80 would tentatively arrive in early 2015. That's more then a year away from now, and also around the time of
> the planned end of public updates of Oracle JDK 7. [1] Therefore I expect 7u80 to be the last Oracle-led JDK 7u
> release developed as part of this OpenJDK Project.
>
> With respect to security fixes, Oracle plans to continue to integrate applicable fixes from Critical Patch Updates in
> the OpenJDK 7u forest until the end of public updates of Oracle JDK 7.
>
> New contributions should go to the JDK 9 and JDK 8u Projects first. With the JDK 8u Project starting up, it's a good
> time to get involved, and start working on testing, adopting and migrating to JDK 8u releases in downstream projects
> currently using this Project's source code.
Why new contributions should go to jdk9 and jdk8 first?? I am interested in 
building the hotspot of the jdk7u, not in jdk8 or jdk9 -- building hotspot of 
jdk8 on WXP does not work -- ... So, it is a triple work that OpenJDK is asking 
for having a fix proposal integrated in the jdk7u. This rule is just a stopper 
for supplying a contributive work...

Francis
>
> The reasoning I gave [2] behind focusing 7u60 on bug fixes and enabling migration to 8 holds even stronger for 7u80.
> I expect the Maintainers of this Project to examine each incoming fix for 7u80 closely to avoid building up a glut of
> fixes to have to forward port in the future.
>
> cheers,
> dalibor topic
>
> [1] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html
> [2] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk7u-dev/2013-November/008070.html