Tagging proposal for JDK GA releases

[Seán Coffey]

Thanks for the feedback to date. Given the support expressed for this
change, and the lack of objections, I'll propose the necessary jcheck
changes to the Code Tools Project. Once approved, I'll ask the Leads
of the relevant JDK Projects to begin using the new tag format each
time a JDK release achieves the GA milestone.

regards,
Sean.

On 03/10/2018 15:54, Seán Coffey wrote:
> I'd like to propose an enhancement to the JDK build-tagging
> convention to help users more easily identify JDK GA releases
> via Mercurial tag names.
>
> The concept is quite simple and lets people identify snapshots
> of GA releases in Mercurial history without having to know the
> build number of the GA release.
>
> For example, to obtain JDK 10.0.2 GA sources today, one issues the
> `hg update -r jdk-10.0.2+13` command. With the proposed
> enhancement, `hg update -r jdk-10.0.2-ga` could have been used.
> It's proposed that the new ga tag would be in addition to the regular
> GA build number tag. It would be added to the relevant repository
> once the GA milestone has been reached.
>
> This new convention would be used for future JDK releases and is
> tracked via JDK-8180946[1]. If the changes are adopted, I can
> look at retroactively adding labels for all feature JDK GA releases
> since JDK 7 to the JDK feature-release main-line repository.
>
> To accommodate the new tag format, some simple jcheck edits
> would be required. Test checks would also be added.
>
> Comments?
>
> regards,
> Sean.
>
> [1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8180946