PLEASE READ: OpenJFX developer repos + JDK 10 RDP1 deadlines

[Kevin Rushforth]

As a reminder, the repo renaming is happening starting this Sunday 
evening, Dec 3, at 8pm Pacific. I will send email on Monday when the new 
jfx-dev repo is open for business.

-- Kevin

Kevin Rushforth wrote:
> To: All OpenJFX developers
>
> There are two related items that you need to be aware of, so please 
> read this if you are a developer of OpenJFX.
>
> Executive summary:
>
> 1. To match the JDK project, which has a persistent, 
> non-release-specific mainline repo [1], the FX 10 and 10-dev repos 
> will be "renamed" to jfx and jfx-dev. Starting Monday, Dec 4 all fixes 
> for FX should be pushed to jfx-dev/rt rather than 10-dev/rt.
>
> 2. As a reminder, the JDK 10 RDP1 milestone is coming up on Dec 14 
> [2]. All bug fixes and RFEs planned for 10 should be pushed by that 
> date. We will fork the repo at that time and only approved fixes will 
> go into JDK 10 after that point.
>
>
> Details:
>
> 1. Historically, the JDK has had separate development mainline repos 
> for each code line, and the OpenJFX project has followed this pattern. 
> Starting with JDK 10, development has switched to a model where the 
> development branch is persistent (that is, it doesn't change when a 
> new release is started) and is no longer release-specific. So there is 
> a jdk project with a jdk mainline repo [1], and no longer a jdk10 
> mainline repo. We will start following this for the OpenJFX project, too.
>
> We will "effectively rename" the FX 10-dev (and 10 [master]) repos to 
> jfx-dev (and jfx [master]). I use the term "effectively rename", 
> because what we will actually do is clone a new jfx-dev repo from 
> 10-dev and make 10-dev read-only. This is because we will shortly need 
> a new forked repo for 10 stabilization, so it is easier to do this 
> than delete and recreate it.
>
> The end result will be that for developers, the place you push fixes 
> going forward will always be "jfx-dev/rt" rather than "10-dev/rt" and 
> then "11-dev/rt" and then ...
>
> The planned timeline for the switchover is:
>
> Sunday, Dec 3
>
> * The openjfx 10-dev forest will be made read only at 8:00 pm Pacific 
> time on Sunday. If you have a fix that you want in before Monday, then 
> you need to push it no later than 7:59 pm (Pacific) Sunday night.
>
> * The jfx-dev forest will be cloned from 10-dev (and the jfx [master] 
> forest will be cloned from 10 [master])
>
> Monday, Dec 4
>
> * Once this is done and tested, I will send out email announcing that 
> it is open for pushing. I expect that this will happen early Monday 
> morning (Pacific time). Once the repo is open, developers will need to 
> edit their .hgrc files to point to the new jfx-dev forest instead of 
> 10-dev.
>
>
> 2. As a reminder, the JDK 10 RDP1 milestone is coming up on Dec 14 
> [2]. All bug fixes and RFEs planned for 10 should be pushed by that 
> date. We will fork the repo at that time; only approved fixes will go 
> into JDK 10 after that point. The guidelines are that only P1-P3 bugs 
> will be considered for inclusion into JDK 10 during RDP1, and not all 
> P3 bugs will be taken.  Generally developers focus on getting a fix 
> into the mainline, and it will make the next available train. Once the 
> 10 stabilization repo has forked, the next train will be 11.
>
> I expect that more guidance will be given on the jdk-dev mailing list 
> as for the processes and policies surrounding this.
>
> -- Kevin
>
> [1] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/jdk/
>
> [2] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/10/
>