Bake time in JDK8 before 7u ? (original) (raw)

Dr Andrew John Hughes ahughes at redhat.com
Mon Sep 5 12:14:20 PDT 2011


On 18:58 Sat 03 Sep , David Holmes wrote: > Most fixes to 7u must go to 8 first. I assume at least part of the reason > for this is to have fixes "bake" in 8 before coming down into 7u. But I'm > seeing a lot of pushes to 8 followed (sometimes within minutes) by requests > to push to 7u. I know there are various schedules to adhere to but it seems > to me that the requirement to push to 8 before 7u is not serving any purpose > in these cases. >> David > I agree. With 7-->6, we used to only backport if the change had been in a number of build drops. However, there don't seem to be OpenJDK8 build drops yet; or have I missed something?

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