[8u-communication] JDK 8u202 RDP2

[Andrew Hughes]

On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 at 10:41, Severin Gehwolf <sgehwolf at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Sean,
>
> On Fri, 2018-10-26 at 13:35 +0100, Seán Coffey wrote:
> > Thanks to all for the JDK 8u202 contributions to date. We'll enter RDP2
> > on morning of 29th October (GMT). All changes in the jdk8u-dev forest
> > will then be synced to the jdk8u master forest.
> >
> > Once we pass the RDP2 milestone, jdk8u-dev will collect fixes for the
> > next OpenJDK 8u release which will be led by others. I propose that an
> > `openjdk8u` fix version be attributed to such fixes in JBS. A similar
> > value was used for the OpenJDK 7u Project when maintainer duties were
> > handed over to Red Hat. Only critical fixes will be accepted into 8u202
> > post RDP2. The process for such requests is described on the Project
> > page[1].
>
> Any details as to when the RDP milestone will be done and fixes can be
> collected for a post-u202 release? Do I need to label pending fixes
> with 'openjdk8u' in JBS? If I do so, what needs to happen next for
> fixes to get in?
>
> My concern is that fixes will be lost in traffic in the time between
> now and January 2019.
>
> Thanks,
> Severin
>
> > regards,
> > Sean.
> >
> > [1] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk8u/phase2/phase2-process.html
> >
>

That's already happening if you look at:

https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8029661

The 8u backport went into 'openjdk8u'.
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