OpenJDK 8u272 Released

[Aleksey Shipilev]

On 10/21/20 6:00 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
>>  From my point of view, the ideal workflow would be to push the changes
>> to the OpenJDK update repos right after the embargo was lifted. After
>> that anybody can use these repos as "golden master" and create source
>> bundles, binararies, etc from them. Or am I missing something?
> 
> That might be better, but it would be a change for how we have done
> things for the last decade. As I say, the repos, source bundles and
> binary bundles all have different target audiences. I don't think it's
> correct to assume everyone who wants the new release is able to build
> their own from a repository.

I am reluctantly against pushing anything to the public repos without a second (hopefully 
non-involved) person looking at it. The rare exceptions are clean merges from other public repos. 
Human errors happen, and reviews help to catch them early before they propagate. IMO, 8u and 11u 
work is too important to take process shortcuts.

Even if formally CPU RFR can only result in prompt fixes on top of already released builds, still, 
this would be the second line of defense against proliferating obvious CPU regressions (the first 
line being VG itself). That is, if anyone would detect a source code problem with a public CPU 
patch, that is better to be discovered the moment embargo lifts. This is coincidentally when CPU RFR 
happens.

Therefore, I would still like to see RFRs sent out for CPU stuff.

> Note that you may not have noticed this with previous releases because
> Aleksey has been doing an excellent job of reviewing them almost
> immediately.  I'm sure he'd appreciate the extra sleep if he's no
> longer on the hook to do that late on unembargo days.

Thanks, yes, that would make my life easier :)

But this actually gives us a middle ground here: if we want the patches to be pushed promptly and 
with review, then consider being on-call around the embargo datetime, so you can review/clear 
Andrew's RFR promptly (hopefully before Andrew himself calls it a day). As Andrew mentions, I did 
that for previous releases, so maybe other folks would consider to stay around for next releases 
too. That's how it is supposed to work, methinks: if you want something to happen (quickly) with a 
due process, then show up and give a helping hand.

-- 
Thanks,
-Aleksey