OpenJDK 7u4 End game (original) (raw)

Andrew Hughes ahughes at redhat.com
Tue Apr 3 02:39:21 PDT 2012

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Hi,

Last Thursday we published the latest early access build of the Oracle JDK 7u4 [1]. As I've mentioned in my past updates [2], the teams are now focusing on fixing bugs found by the community, QA or by the development teams. I'd like to welcome you to test the latest Oracle JDK, or your own OpenJDK [3] build, and report bugs through bugs.sun.com. The sooner the bug reports are filed, the more likely it is that the issues will be fixed in time for the release :) There is still about a month or so left where critical bugs can be fixed. Cheers, Edvard [1] http://jdk7.java.net/download.html [2] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk7u-dev/2012-February/001900.html [3] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u

What's the tag at the point where the 7u trees was branched to create the 7u4 trees? I can't see an obvious one on http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u/jdk/shortlog

On Feb 14, 2012, at 10:27 PM, Edvard Wendelin wrote: > > Hi, > > By now the feature work for 7u4 is basically done and the Mac OS X > port is in the master forest. We're now looking at a period where > the main focus is around bug fixing. A good way to help out is by > testing the latest early access builds, available on the > jdk7.java.net site [1]. As always, you can also build the source > yourself, if you so prefer! > > On February 24th, we plan to create the jdk7u4 stabilisation > forest. It will be a copy of the jdk7u master. Any fixes targeted > for jdk7u4 needs to go into jdk7u4-dev after this point.The code > freeze for Lana's last integration before the 24th is Feb 15th 2 > pm PT. > > For fixes you want to include in jdk7u4 after Feb 23rd, you will > need what's called critical fix approval. What that basically > means is that quality, development and release management says OK > to a particular fix. For those of you who can't edit bugs in the > current bug database, please reach out to me and I'll help with > the approval process. The details I need are: > > * CR number you are working on > * a motivation why this fix is important for JDK 7u4 > * what potential risks the fix could introduce > > I'll add a template to the project page where I add this > information. > > If you are working on a fix that is not critical for 7u4, please > continue using jdk7u-dev. As we move off jdk7u for 7u4, there will > be 7u6 builds from jdk7u starting sometime end of February/early > March. > > > Cheers, > Edvard > > [1] http://jdk7.java.net/download.html > > On Jan 19, 2012, at 10:56 PM, Edvard Wendelin wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> We are now at a point in the 7u4 project where we have a >> reasonably good understanding on what the end game will look >> like. I'd therefore like to outline the activities in the coming >> months. I would also like to remind you that these plans could >> and probably will change before the release is out the door. >> >> We expect that feature development will be completed by the end of >> January. After that the focus will turn to bug fixing. During >> this period of time, SQE will report bugs to development. We >> expect that the vast majority of bugs have been reported by early >> March. During the remainder of the month we will work on the bugs >> still targeted to the release. By the end of March there >> shouldn't be any bugs targeted to 7u4. We will continuously go >> through the open bugs and focus our efforts on the most important >> ones. Some bugs will end up being deferred to JDK 7u6. >> >> Sometime in February, JDK 7u4 will move to a new forest called >> jdk7u/jdk7u4. This is where we will stabilize the release and all >> subsequent builds of 7u4 will be built from this forrest. This >> means that jdk7u/jdk7u-dev remains open for changes. Anything >> integrated after we create jdk7u/jdk7u4 will be included in JDK >> 7u6. >> >> By the time we are through feature complete and have a better idea >> on the amount of bugs open against 7u4, I will update you on what >> the last month will look like. >> >> Cheers, >> Edvard > >

Andrew :)

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