[8u communication] Adjustment of OpenJDK 8u release versions

[Rob McKenna]

As per the previous mail we jumped all the way to 8u102 as we wished "To avoid confusion with any versions that were already in development".

As Andrew Hughes correctly pointed out on an earlier thread, the version numbers planned for future releases had to change as a consequence of recent releases.

Should anyone raise a substantial objection to the proposed changes we can always update the tags. Given the nature of the JDK 8u77 release, and the fact that there are releases in development that need to be associated with some version number in the JBS infrastructure, we're tentatively proceeding with plan A for now however.

     -Rob

On 30/03/16 01:20, Matthias Klose wrote:
> On 30.03.2016 00:49, Rob McKenna wrote:
> >With the release of JDK 8u77 [0], the version numbers of the current and future OpenJDK 8u releases need to be adjusted.
> >
> >To avoid confusion with any versions that were already in development, I'd like to propose the following:
> >
> >    * The next release of this Project to be called 8u92, instead of 8u76
> >    * The release after that release to be called 8u102, instead of 8u82
> >
> >Both proposals are open for discussion for one week until April 5th. Regards,
> 
> well, the 8u102 tag is already used, so why discuss it?  Is there a
> documented rationale why to jump from 8u76 to 8u92? afaics these were just
> +4 updates in the past, not +16.
> 
> Matthias
>