openjdk build pages

[David Holmes]

On 22/05/2014 12:25 PM, Martin Buchholz wrote:
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> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 7:08 PM, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com
> <mailto:david.holmes at oracle.com>> wrote:
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>     On 22/05/2014 11:47 AM, Martin Buchholz wrote:
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>         Another way to look at it is that "jdk7u40" is a tag that will
>         gather
>         far more interest than the build-specific tags "jdk7u40-b62"
>         currently
>         available, which are likely mostly of interest to Oracle release
>         engineering.
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>     The problem with the build tags is that you have to know which build
>     is the GA build beforehand
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> I don't see why that would be true.  You can apply a tag to any revision
> in the past.  So whenever jdk7u40 is officially released, at that time
> you tag the corresponding revision.  It should not matter that it's the
> same revision as jdk7u40-b62, and that other tag may have been created
> much earlier.  If you make a mistake, you can recover - tags are mutable
> if you use -f.

I think you misunderstood what I meant - I was agreeing with you :) We 
can tell someone 'hey if you want 7u40 GA you use tag 7u40-b62' for 
example. But if someone just wonders "hmm how do I get GA for 7u40?" 
they would need to know that b62 was it. Now they might reasonably infer 
that by looking at all the build tags and taking the last one, but it 
would be simpler if there was a more obvious tag to use, like 7u40 or 
7u40-GA.

David