Fwd: JDK 10 enters Rampdown Phase One in one week

[jesper.wilhelmsson at oracle.com]

Hi HotSpot developers!

FYI, Mark sent out the announcement below around RDP1. I'm happy to highlight that this announcement states that all main JDK repositories (which includes jdk/hs) will enter RDP1 at the same date, December 14th.

We have agreed on a process to allow pushes made to the jdk/hs repository all the way up to December 14th to get integrated to the JDK 10 stabilization repository. This gives you another week to fix those last critical P4-P5 bugs.

The general recommendation is still not to push more RFEs or P4-P5 bug fixes though, as there are more than enough higher priority bugs to work on to stabilize JDK 10.

Thanks,
/Jesper

> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: mark.reinhold at oracle.com
> Subject: JDK 10 enters Rampdown Phase One in one week
> Date: 7 December 2017 at 16:58:44 CET
> To: jdk-dev at openjdk.java.net
> 
> JDK 10 will enter Rampdown Phase One in one week, on Thursday, 14
> December.  Changes intended for JDK 10 should be in the main-line
> repository (http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/jdk), or one of the two
> repositories that feed it (jdk/hs or jdk/client), by 16:00 UTC on
> that day [1].
> 
> After next week's build (jdk-10+36) is promoted we'll open a jdk/jdk10
> repository, initialized from that tag in the main line, to host the
> remaining stabilization work for JDK 10.  This will include any last
> changes that trickle in from jdk/hs and jdk/client, most likely early
> the following week.  Further JDK 10 EA builds will be done from this
> repository.
> 
> We'll semi-automatically merge changes pushed to JDK 10 into the
> main-line jdk/jdk repository, as we did for the transition from JDK 9
> to JDK 10.  This means that:
> 
>  - If you make a change in JDK 10 then you needn't do any extra
>    work to get it into the main line, though if a merge conflict
>    arises then you might be asked to help resolve it.
> 
>  - If you need to make a change in both JDK 10 and the main line
>    then just push it to JDK 10, and wait for the automatic merge
>    to complete.
> 
> Changes pushed into the main-line repositories (jdk/{jdk,client,hs})
> after the above deadline will be destined for JDK 11 unless they're
> back-ported.  When back-ports turn out to be necessary then they'll be
> easier to do than in the past: Duplicate bugids are permitted in the
> new repository layout, so a change can be pushed to both code lines
> using the same bugid if needed.
> 
> The Rampdown Phase One process will be similar to that of JDK 9 [2].
> I'll post a detailed proposal for that shortly.
> 
> - Mark
> 
> 
> [1] https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=JDK+10+Rampdown+Phase+One&iso=20171214T16
> [2] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk9/rdp-1