[8u-communication] JDK 8u202 planning

[Martijn Verburg]

Hi Andrew / All,

We're happy to get the AdoptOpenJDK Build Farm into the right state to
produce those binaries.  We're already producing OpenJDK 8 builds across
all platforms but appreciate that the OpenJDK community may have extra
requirements that we need to flesh out.

Happy to start that conversation even if the post-Oracle lead for 8 updates
isn't confirmed yet.

Cheers,
Martijn


On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 at 09:43, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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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