Tagging proposal for JDK GA releases (original) (raw)

Volker Simonis volker.simonis at gmail.com
Thu Oct 4 08:15:44 UTC 2018

Sounds good!

Thanks for driving this forward, Volker

Seán Coffey <sean.coffey at oracle.com> schrieb am Mi. 3. Okt. 2018 um 17:55:

I'd like to propose an enhancement to the JDK build-tagging convention to help users more easily identify JDK GA releases via Mercurial tag names.

The concept is quite simple and lets people identify snapshots of GA releases in Mercurial history without having to know the build number of the GA release. For example, to obtain JDK 10.0.2 GA sources today, one issues the hg update -r jdk-10.0.2+13 command. With the proposed enhancement, hg update -r jdk-10.0.2-ga could have been used. It's proposed that the new ga tag would be in addition to the regular GA build number tag. It would be added to the relevant repository once the GA milestone has been reached. This new convention would be used for future JDK releases and is tracked via JDK-8180946[1]. If the changes are adopted, I can look at retroactively adding labels for all feature JDK GA releases since JDK 7 to the JDK feature-release main-line repository. To accommodate the new tag format, some simple jcheck edits would be required. Test checks would also be added. Comments? regards, Sean. [1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8180946

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