JDK 8u release engineering (Was: Timeline for 11.0.4 development)

[Langer, Christoph]

Hi Andrew,

> > I can take over the tagging/integration work for 8u - it will fit in
> > nicely with the downstream work with aarch64/shenandoah-jdk8u - but
> can
> > you provide me details as to what your process was, so I can apply the
> same?
> 
> Great. I'll put some details about the steps into the Wiki. I already started
> something for JDK11 updates [0].
> 
> The first step now should be to integrate jdk8u212-ga/jdk8u212-b04 back to
> jdk8u-dev. I did similar for jdk11u/jdk11u-dev last week already.
> 
> I'll get back to you later when the Wiki is updated.

Great, I saw that you've integrated jdk8u212-ga/jdk8u212-b04 back to jdk8u-dev. ��

As for the further process recipe, can you check the process description that I created in the Wiki [0]? I'd hope that the information in there helps you to find everything you need. It would also be great if you could develop this document further. The special thing about jdk8u is the mercurial forest structure. So the command line instructions for tagging and pulling should probably be scripted to go over the whole forest.

Let me know if you have further questions/suggestions on that one.

Thanks
Christoph

[0] https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/jdk8u/Detailed+Process+Description