Proposed schedule for JavaFX 14

[Kevin Rushforth]

The announced RDP1 date is the first Monday of the new year. In taking a 
closer look at the upcoming holiday schedule and accounting for 
additional days off some will be taking before or after, this doesn't 
allow enough time for the final stages of the review process to 
complete, including CSR approval. It is quite possible that an 
enhancement with a mostly-completed review and a CSR that is Finalized 
this Thursday or Friday (Dec 19 or 20), won't be approved in time for 
integration.

To address this, we are delaying RDP1 by three days. The new RDP1 date is:

Thursday, Jan 9, 23:59 PST

The dates for RDP2, code freeze, and GA are unchanged.

Please be aware that this three-day extension isn't an invitation to try 
to get additional features into 14 at the last minute, but rather an 
adjustment to better align with the holiday schedule in order to give 
the already-in-flight features that are nearing completion a little more 
time to make it. It is still the case that if an enhancement isn't ready 
(meaning API discussed & approved, code review mostly done, and CSR 
finalized) by this Friday, it should be retargeted to JavaFX 15.

-- Kevin


On 12/10/2019 1:45 PM, Kevin Rushforth wrote:
> As a reminder, RDP1 for JavaFX 14 starts on January 6, 2020 (at 23:59 
> Pacific time).
>
> With the holidays approaching, please allow sufficient time for any 
> feature that needs a CSR. New features should be far enough along in 
> the review process so you can finalize the CSR before next Friday, Dec 
> 20, or it is likely to miss the window for this release, in which case 
> it can be targeted for JavaFX 15.
>
> During rampdown of JavaFX 14, the "master" branch of the jfx repo will 
> be open for JavaFX 15 fixes.
>
> We will follow the same process as previous releases for getting fixes 
> into JavaFX 14 during rampdown. I'll send a message with detailed 
> information later, but generally candidates for fixing after RDP1 are 
> P1-P3 bugs (as long as they are not risky) and test or doc bugs of any 
> priority.
>
> -- Kevin
>
>
> On 9/20/2019 8:00 AM, Kevin Rushforth wrote:
>> Here is the proposed schedule for JavaFX 14.
>>
>> RDP1: Jan 6, 2020 (aka “feature freeze”)
>> RDP2: Feb 3, 2020
>> Freeze: Feb 24, 2020
>> GA: March 10, 2020
>>
>> We plan to fork a jfx14 stabilization branch at RDP1. The GA date is 
>> expected to be one week ahead of JDK 14, matching what we did for 13.
>>
>> Please let Johan or me know if you have any questions.
>>
>> -- Kevin
>>
>