Development model & deadlines

[Jonathan Gibbons]

On 01/24/2013 09:36 AM, Werner Dietl wrote:
> All,
>
> will anything change in our development approach now that type
> annotations are also in TL?
> I assume I can still commit to the type-annotations repository and at
> certain points we make official patches for TL.
> How frequently do you want to sync?
>
> Steve is not a committer to type-annotations. Should we change this,
> so that he can add tests in type-annotations? Or should he add tests
> in TL?
>
> What is roughly our deadline for the next milestone?
>
> Thanks,
> cu, WMD.
>


The next deadline is M7, Developer Preview, on Feb 21.
See http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk8/milestones

Code freeze will be a week or more before that. I am trying
to determine the exact date.

We can continue to commit to type-annotations, but there should
not (will not) be any more "bulk updates" from type-annotations
to TL as occurred yesterday. From now on, pushes to TL must
follow the more standard rules of requiring a changeset number,
individual review, and should generally be focussed on a single
issue, much as you would see for all other changesets going into TL.

After M7 it will get progressively hard to push changesets as we try
and stabilize the code base.

-- Jon