Future jdk9u updates & 9-critical-request (original) (raw)

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Thu Jan 25 17:28:34 UTC 2018

On 25/01/2018 16:46, Andrew Haley wrote

: This is ridiculously hostile behaviour: to break a bunch of things in OpenJDK, do a release, and then immediately drop the project on the floor before giving anyone a chance to fix what is broken. Really, I would have expected better than this.

I guess I'll have to be the project maintainer for long enough to commit the necessary fixes so that jdk9u works for all ports, not just the ones that Oracle ships. I don't think anyone deliberately broke anything. I think it's just that 9.0.4 was a security release so the changes couldn't bake in jdk-updates/jdk9u.

This may be something that the establishment of the vulnerabilities group will help with. Alternatively maybe the JDK Update maintainers could just approve the changes needed to get the ports aligned and leave it at that. If someone steps up to maintain the JDK 9 updates going forward then they could tag a new release that includes the changes.

-Alan

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