Java 12 / JDK 12: General Availability

[jesper.wilhelmsson at oracle.com]

> On 20 Mar 2019, at 16:49, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
> 
> // Dropping announce at ojn, since no one else’s e-mail client appears
> // intelligent enough to do so
> 
> 2019/3/20 7:10:12 -0700, jesper.wilhelmsson at oracle.com:
>> I didn't see any actual decision on this. Is it enough that there is a
>> bug filed in JBS and a mail thread with five or so people that thinks
>> it is a good idea? Given that this is enough for most code changes
>> that potentially could have a much larger impact on the OpenJDK maybe
>> it's fine. I don't have an opinion here, I'm just curious as to how we
>> make decisions in the OpenJDK.
> 
> In the OpenJDK Community we generally make decisions by rough consensus,
> except for situations explicitly identified in the Bylaws as requiring
> formal votes.
> 
> In any case, as the Lead of the JDK Project I endorse Seán’s original
> proposal [1].
> 
> Jesper -- since you handle promotion tagging for the main-line repo,
> could you please also create the jdk-12-ga tag in that repo?  Thanks.

Done.

Will the tag propagate to jdk-updates/jdk12u or should I add it there as well?

Thanks,
/Jesper

> - Mark
> 
> 
> [1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2018-October/002004.html