Version strings and update build numbers (determining when an update release goes GA)

[Martijn Verburg]

Hi Sean,

Any chance of having your patch reviewed/discussed?  Would be great to get
into 12 and have back ported to 11 and 8.

Cheers,
Martijn


On Thu, 8 Jun 2017 at 12:48, Martijn Verburg <martijnverburg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thank you!
>
> Cheers,
> Martijn
>
> On 8 June 2017 at 09:41, Seán Coffey <sean.coffey at oracle.com> wrote:
>
>> Martijn,
>>
>> we're tracking this via :
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8180946
>>
>> Given that the tags are added by our release team, I've raised the matter
>> with them and am awaiting feedback.
>>
>> regards,
>> Sean.
>> On 08/06/2017 09:12, Martijn Verburg wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Happy to raise this as an issue on the OpenJDK bug tracker.  Do I need to
>> submit this through the old bugs.java.com?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Martijn
>>
>> On 24 May 2017 at 16:06, Martijn Verburg <martijnverburg at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Sean,
>>>
>>> An enhancement which adds GA tags for build systems like ours to pick up
>>> would be welcome.  I'm not an author so I'm not sure I can raise this issue
>>> in the OpenJDK JIRA?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Martijn
>>>
>>> On 24 May 2017 at 15:35, Seán Coffey <sean.coffey at oracle.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Martijn,
>>>>
>>>> You raise a good point around how one can easily identify releases that
>>>> have shipped. From an Oracle JDK perspective, the release notes should
>>>> always state the final build number of the 'shipped' release. For now,
>>>> that's probably the safest way to match a repo tag to a shipped JDK version.
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps a JBS enhancement request can be logged to track improvements
>>>> in this area. Would it make sense to add a new label to identify the final
>>>> 'shipped' release ? e.g. jdk8u131-b11-GA
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Sean.
>>>>
>>>> On 23/05/17 15:19, Martijn Verburg wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> The Adopt OpenJDK community has created an OpenJDK Build farm
>>>>> <https://www.adoptopenjdk.net> for as many platforms as possible in
>>>>> order
>>>>> to assist with early testing of things like backported patches in
>>>>> jdk8u.
>>>>>
>>>>> We have a question on update and build numbers currently used in tags.
>>>>>
>>>>> At the moment we are picking up the version string from the tag
>>>>> 1.8.0u152-b04, but we're a bit hesitant at making an binary release of
>>>>> that
>>>>> particular tag as 1.8.0u152 isn't 'officially' released yet.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there a way to automatically tell when the update version is 'done'?
>>>>> For example update 131 was released as jdk8u131-b11....
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Martijn
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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