8u20 repo open for normal business [was: Rampdown / stabilization of 8u20 for milestone M2]

[Kevin Rushforth]

We have finished our stabilization, and are generating the 8u20-b03 
(milestone M2) build.

Since "Lambda Day" has now become "Lambda Month" (see Steve's earlier 
e-mail), there is no reason to leave the repo frozen, so the 8u20 dev 
repo is now open for normal business for post-M2 changes.

No additional approvals are needed to push. Back to the usual review rules.

-- Kevin


Kevin Rushforth wrote:
> As a reminder:  We are approaching the M2 freeze as described in #5 
> below. All approved (see #4) changesets for the M2 milestone build 
> should be pushed by 11:00 PM Pacific time on Sunday, Feb 23.
>
> -- Kevin
>
>
> Kevin Rushforth wrote:
>> Hi OpenJFX committers,
>>
>> After this coming Monday's FX build, which will go into 8u20-b02, we 
>> will start ramping down for our M2 milestone build (aka 8u20-b03). 
>> This particular milestone is important for the embedded platform. As 
>> a result, you will need to observe the following rules for any commit.
>>
>> 1) Sunday, Feb 16 at 11:00 pm Pacific time:  All planned changes for 
>> b02 should be in (our test build is scheduled to start at 11pm that 
>> day). The usual rules apply for changesets pushed prior to that time.
>>
>>
>> 2) All changesets that are pushed after 11:00 pm Pacific time on 
>> Sunday, Feb 16 will need additional scrutiny to go in. In addition to 
>> your normal reviewer you must get a "+1" from one of the following, 
>> even if you would normally do a post-commit review:
>>
>>   Daniel Blaukopf
>>   Steve Northover
>>   Kevin Rushforth
>>   Lisa Selle
>>
>>
>> 3) Monday, Feb 17:  We will do our usual "(In)Sanity Testing" and 
>> then hand off the bits to release engineering for 8u20-b02.
>>
>>
>> 4) Week of Feb 17 - 14:  Bug fixes can go in subject to the extra 
>> approval noted above, but please hold off making any risky changes 
>> until after M2.
>>
>>
>> 5) Sunday, Feb 23 at 11:00 pm Pacific time:  We will do a soft 
>> freeze, during which time we will be locked except for critical 
>> issues discovered during testing, for b03 (milestone M2).
>>
>>
>> 6) Monday, Feb 24:  We will do our usual "(In)Sanity Testing", with 
>> extra emphasis on testing anything that changed after b02, and then 
>> hand off the bits to release engineering for 8u20-b03.
>>
>>
>> 7) I will send a subsequent announcement as to when the repo is "open 
>> for normal business".
>>
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> -- Kevin
>>