Shenandoah JDK 11

[Roman Kennke]

Am 06.07.2018 um 10:19 schrieb Aleksey Shipilev:
> On 07/06/2018 10:13 AM, Simone Bordet wrote:
>>> Binary builds:
>>>   https://builds.shipilev.net/openjdk-shenandoah-jdk11/
>>
>> If I interpret the file name correctly, they seem to be based on
>> jdk11-b4, while latest is jdk11-b21?
>> I ask because jdk11-b8+ contains important NIO changes that I would
>> like to try with Shenandoah.
> 
> These are internal build numbers, having no relation to repo tags. If you look into repo history,
> then you will notice we have jdk-11+21 tag inside [1]. Which means NIO fixes are there and you can
> try the build now.
> 
>> If b4 refers to Shenandoah, would be it be possible to know also the
>> jdk11-bXX version they are based on, if that makes sense?
> 
> That would make sense, sure! Now I only have to figure out to bend the build system to include tags.
> 

But for that to work we need to have reasonable tags first. Which means
we shall merge up to certain tags, and then tag the merge changeset with
a special corresponding shenandoah-jdk-11-bXX tags. And then we can spin
builds from those tags.

I'll keep this in mind when doing regular merges.

Roman