Is there a 24 hr production release warning DL?

[Jeff Palmer]

Dalibor,
Thanks for the information.  I added myself, and added a mail filter for [7u communication].  Looking through the archives, there are some good messages, like the 7u10 schedule link, http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk7u-dev/2012-August/004228.html

Seems a little too informal though.  I found the release message for 7u6, http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk7u-dev/2012-August/004059.html .  Nothing for 7u9.  The date on ire-7u9-macosx-x64.dmg is 2012-09-27 5:55PM & 2012-09-25 1:04PM for the file inside.  I find no message announcing it.  I find only 2 messages with 7u9 even in the title.  

This means I would been equally unprepared if I was monitoring back then, maybe unless a was reading the full text of every message.  To be fair, I did not even recognize I had a problem until one of the jars changed.  Testing on my side also needs to improve.

Saw, the doc about the quarterly security release, but this just a guideline.

I thought, ok just monitor http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp a couple times a day with a production server, & send a sms-like Gmail if the page changes + server logging.  What's one more when it already monitors over 1500 pages now?  Problem is the meta date tag of the page says 2012-08-14,  the same day as 7u6 message from above.  The text it says Version 9, so the page looks wrong.

Should I submit a bug for the manual.jsp meta date tag?  Do I need to RegEx the text of the page and fish out version numbers (fragile)?  

Thanks,

Jeff

On Oct 29, 2012, at 3:00 PM, macosx-port-dev-request at openjdk.java.net wrote:

> From: Dalibor Topic <dalibor.topic at oracle.com>
> Subject: Re: Is there a 24 hr production release warning DL?
> Date: October 29, 2012 1:17:37 PM EDT
> To: macosx-port-dev at openjdk.java.net
> 
> 
> On 10/26/12 8:16 PM, Jeff Palmer wrote:
>> Well did eventually find the list of lists , http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo .  The "announce" list might work, being tightly moderated.  There was a message in October, but the 7u9 ea's or release not it.  Anything wrong with using that one?
> 
> That list is for general, OpenJDK-wide announcements. Weekly builds of a specific project don't fit that bill.
> The list you're looking for is jdk7u-dev, which has announcements on schedules, etc. under subjects starting with 
> [7u communication]. No EA build announcements, though, since we don't actually provide builds in OpenJDK, but
> you can follow along with the commit messages to see when a particular build's sources have been tagged, and 
> attempt to build it yourself, if you like.
> 
> Here's an example tag commit message: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk7u-dev/2012-September/004332.html
>