[7u-communication] Future Plans for JDK 7 Updates 7u60 & 7u80 (original) (raw)

Francis ANDRE francis.andre.kampbell at orange.fr
Mon Jan 13 23:02:00 PST 2014

Hi Dalibor Le 10/01/2014 22:11, Dalibor Topic a écrit :

With 7u60 development moving ahead at a steady pace, and JDK 8u and JDK 9 Projects ramping up, it's a good time to take a look ahead at the subsequent 7u release. Our development model in JDK 7 Updates allows us to accumulate fixes for future releases in the -dev forest, while working on the next release in a separate stabilization forest.

The next release after 7u60 in this Project would be 7u80. JDK 7u80 would tentatively arrive in early 2015. That's more then a year away from now, and also around the time of the planned end of public updates of Oracle JDK 7. [1] Therefore I expect 7u80 to be the last Oracle-led JDK 7u release developed as part of this OpenJDK Project. With respect to security fixes, Oracle plans to continue to integrate applicable fixes from Critical Patch Updates in the OpenJDK 7u forest until the end of public updates of Oracle JDK 7. New contributions should go to the JDK 9 and JDK 8u Projects first. With the JDK 8u Project starting up, it's a good time to get involved, and start working on testing, adopting and migrating to JDK 8u releases in downstream projects currently using this Project's source code. Why new contributions should go to jdk9 and jdk8 first?? I am interested in building the hotspot of the jdk7u, not in jdk8 or jdk9 -- building hotspot of jdk8 on WXP does not work -- ... So, it is a triple work that OpenJDK is asking for having a fix proposal integrated in the jdk7u. This rule is just a stopper for supplying a contributive work...

Francis

The reasoning I gave [2] behind focusing 7u60 on bug fixes and enabling migration to 8 holds even stronger for 7u80. I expect the Maintainers of this Project to examine each incoming fix for 7u80 closely to avoid building up a glut of fixes to have to forward port in the future. cheers, dalibor topic [1] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html [2] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk7u-dev/2013-November/008070.html

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