[8u] Request for approval : 8032693 - javax.print.PrintService does not find any CUPS-Printers on Linux

[Seán Coffey]

The main guidance may be found in the template form found on the Project 
page [1]. That requests 8u$N to be used which would be 8u20 in this 
case. Since a push to jdk8u-dev equates to fixVersion = 8u20, engineers 
seem to interchange 8u20 which 8u-dev and I don't think this has caused 
too much confusion for anyone in the past.

I think it's more important to be explicit about the fix version during 
the stabilization phase but that's many months off [2].

regards,
Sean.

[1] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk8u/approval-template.html
[2] 
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk8u-dev/2014-February/000201.html

On 10/02/2014 22:31, Jeff Dinkins wrote:
> Looks good, approved for 8u-dev.
>
>> BTW I see some emails like this use  [8u20] and some [8u] but I can't see any guidance on what is actually preferred.
> Since the numbers sometimes change I prefer [8u] over the explicit release number, until after the fork when you have something explicit (and urgent) that needs to get back into the update that’s getting close release.
>
> So, [8u] means next open release pre-fork. [8uX] means you’re targeting an explicit release post-fork.
>
>
>> FWIW I'd suppose [8u20] to be for critical requests after the repos fork off for 8u20 and so currently it should just be [8u] to match the repo ??
>
> Sean, Rob, Dalibor, did this get codified on a wiki page?
>
> -jeff
>