JDK 9 release schedule

[mark.reinhold at oracle.com]

2015/12/1 9:08 -0800, mark.reinhold at oracle.com:
> ...
> 
> For these reasons I hereby propose a six-month extension of the JDK 9
> schedule, moving the Feature Complete (FC) milestone to 25 May 2016, the
> General Availability (GA) milestone to 23 March 2017, and adjusting the
> interim milestones accordingly.
> 
> ...
> 
> Comments on this proposal from JDK 9 Committers are welcome, as are
> reasoned objections.  If no such objections are raised by 18:00 UTC next
> Tuesday, 8 December, or if they're raised and satisfactorily answered,
> then per the JEP 2.0 process proposal [8] this will be adopted as the
> new schedule for JDK 9.

Hearing no objections, I've recorded the new FC and GA dates on the
JDK 9 Project page [1].  (The FC date has been rounded up to 2016/5/26
so that all milestones fall on Thursdays, as usual.)

Here are the proposed dates for the interim milestones:

 (2016/05/26  Feature Complete)
  2016/08/11  All Tests Run
  2016/09/01  Rampdown Start
  2016/10/20  Zero Bug Bounce
  2016/12/01  Rampdown Phase 2
  2017/01/26  Final Release Candidate
 (2017/03/23  General Availability)

I didn't include the interim milestones in the initial proposal, so
I'll leave them open for discussion under the same terms until 23:30
UTC next Wednesday, 16 December.

- Mark


[1] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk9/