JDK 7 Updates: Policy Changes

[David Holmes]

On 23/07/2015 5:04 AM, Omair Majid wrote:
> Hi Dalibor,
>
> Thanks for the responses! I have a few follow on questions that mostly
> stem from my unfamiliarity with JIRA.
>
> * dalibor topic <dalibor.topic at oracle.com> [2015-07-22 13:05]:
>> On 20.07.2015 17:36, Omair Majid wrote:
>>> Could be there be conflicts would Open and
>>> Proprietary bugs? If so, any tips to minimize those conflicts?
>>
>> An interesting potential source of conflict is that hgupdater creates
>> backports entries in JBS. So you want to ensure that for jdk7u forests it's
>> configured in a way that lets you easily distinguish issues.
>>
>> That's why we had this thread back in March:
>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk7u-dev/2015-March/010279.html
>
> What about manual OpenJDK7-specific issues? Can we create those
> manually?
>
>> For example, there is no special representation of the milestones like
>> Rampdown Phase 2 in the JDK JBS Project. Instead, they were tracked
>> separately - see https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/jdk7u/JDK+7u80 for an
>> example.
>
> Thank you, this clarifies things. Is there a way to say "We expect this
> bug to be resolved in OpenJDK 7u99" in JIRA? Bugzilla calls this "Target
> Milestone" [1].
>
>> That way, when an issue X is marked as Fixed in Version OpenJDK 7, Resolved
>> in Build b85, you could distinguish it from one that is marked as fixed in
>> version 7u85, Resolved in Build b01 (as would for example be the case for
>> issues addressed in Oracle's JDK).
>
> Can we mark an issue as Fixed in Version OpenJDK 7, Resolved in Build
> 7u85? I expect future "releases" of OpenJDK7u to continue using the 7uXY
> versioning scheme that has been used in the past (I don't know if we
> will use many build numbers, however).

7u85 is not a "build number" but a "version". The allowed values for 
build numbers is constrained in JBS and currently only includes some 
things that are not build numbers due to the way the system had to be 
initialized from our internal bug systems (as I understand it).

If you want to keep track of OpenJDK7u fixes relative to their Oracle 
JDK 7u counterparts then using backport issues may be the way to go.

David

> Thanks,
> Omair
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.readthedocs.org/en/latest/using/understanding.html
>