JDK 7 Updates: Policy Changes

[Andrew Hughes]

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

Indeed. I think what we want to say is fixed in version OpenJDK 7u85,
resolved in build 00, 01, etc.

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

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Andrew :)

Senior Free Java Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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