JDK 10 Rampdown Phase Two: Process proposal

[mark.reinhold at oracle.com]

2018/1/11 14:47:43 -0800, mark.reinhold at oracle.com:
> Per the JDK 10 schedule [1], we'll enter Rampdown Phase Two next week,
> on Thursday, 18 January.
> 
> The goal of this phase is the same as it was for JDK 9: Ensure that we
> fix the bugs that must be fixed in order to ensure a successful release,
> and understand why we're not going to fix some bugs that perhaps ought to
> be fixed.
> 
> I propose that we use the same process as for JDK 9.  I've drafted pages
> for RDP 2 and the fix-request process and posted them here:
> 
>   http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/10/rdp-2
>   http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/10/fix-request-process
> 
> This phase will run for three weeks, until 8 February, when we'll produce
> an initial Release Candidate build and enter the Release Candidate phase.
> 
> JDK Committers are invited to comment on this process proposal.  If no
> objections are raised in one week's time, by 23:00 UTC next Thursday,
> 18 January, then this is the process that we'll use.

Hearing no objections, these are the processes that we'll use for JDK 10
Rampdown Phase Two.

- Mark