Only P1-P3 bugs fixes are allowed to push into jdk9 now
Volker Simonis
volker.simonis at gmail.com
Wed Jan 4 10:23:04 UTC 2017
On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 7:53 PM, Vladimir Kozlov
<vladimir.kozlov at oracle.com> wrote:
> We are currently in "Rampdown" phase for jdk 9 which allows only P1-P3 bugs
> fixes. Note for Hotspot it started week ago.
>
> http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk9/
>
> Please, make sure bugs you are planning to fix have P1-P3 priority and "fix
> version" is jdk 9. I just updated JDK-8171266 [1] for that.
>
Thanks a lot Vladimir. I'll push it today.
Just for clarification: do the "Rampdown phase rules" also apply to
non-Oracle platforms like ppc64 or s390x? In the past, we were allowed
to push non P1-P3 bugs or enhancements even in later phases as long as
they didn't touch shared code. Is this still allowed or do we now have
to strictly conform to the process even for ppc64/s390x-only changes?
Thanks a lot and best regards,
Volker
> You can rise priority to P3 if you think a bug must be fixed in jdk 9 or
> defer it to jdk 10 - set "fix version" to 10.
>
> I see 3 aarch64 P4-P5 bugs which should be updated accordingly:
>
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8170101
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8170103
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8165058
>
> Thanks,
> Vladimir
>
> [1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8171266
> "PPC64: Add support to -XX:RTMSpinLoopCount=0"
>
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