Coherent release process

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> On 12.11.2015 04:42, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>  > if/when the OpenJDK project may develop a more coherent release plan?
> 
> You can find the plans for JDK 9 at
> http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk9/ . The plans for JDK 8 Updates are
> linked off the Project page of the corresponding JDK 8 Updates Project
> in the OpenJDK Community at http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk8u/ .
> 
> The corresponding Project's mailing list, jdk8u-dev, is the right place
> to ask questions about JDK 8 Updates in OpenJDK. The JDK 8 Project has
> completed its work with the JDK 8 GA a while ago, so this list is
> largely dormant.
> 

Is there a good reason for this practice? Having seen this happen with
both 7/7u and 8/8u mailing lists, it would seem to make sense to keep
one mailing list instead when 9 goes GA, to avoid this confusion.

It's things like this that make OpenJDK confusing to new users and
I don't see the necessity for it myself.

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew :)

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

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