[8u-communication] JDK 8u202 planning

[Andrew Haley]

On 09/28/2018 03:58 PM, Seán Coffey wrote:
> As per previous communications [1], Oracle doesn't plan to contribute
> further changes to JDK 8 Updates in this OpenJDK Project beyond
> January 2019.
> 
> 8u202 is proposed to be the last Oracle led release for this OpenJDK
> Project. A proposed timeline is as follows :
> 
>    - July 2018                   8u-dev forest begins collecting 8u202 fixes
>    - Mid October 2018    RampDown 2
>    - Mid January 2019     GA
> 
> With the January 2019 release approaching the stabilization phase, fixes
> in the master jdk8u forest on or before October 23rd will automatically
> get included in the January 8u202 release. If I hear no objections to the
> proposed timeline, I'll publish them on the Project page next week.
> 
> While the January release ramps down for stabilization, discussion on this
> mailing list can move to how best to transition this Project to a new set
> of maintainers.

That sounds good. I presume that Oracle supports ends the instant 8u202
is GA, so I'd hope that we could have a clean transition to a new project
lead at exactly that moment.

We also need to talk about how to build and distribute OpenJDK 8 binaries
for releases after 8u202 GA.

-- 
Andrew Haley
Java Platform Lead Engineer
Red Hat UK Ltd. <https://www.redhat.com>
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