[8u communication] JDK 8 Updates porting process (original) (raw)

Philip Race philip.race at oracle.com
Sat Mar 25 15:16:08 UTC 2017


Could we use 9-bp instead of 9-pool ? 9-bp strikes a bit more urgency without identifying a release.

X-pool has traditionally been the Sargasso Sea of releases

-phil.

On 3/25/17, 3:20 AM, Seán Coffey wrote:

With JDK 9 now entering the RDP2 phase, the bar for getting fixes into that release is high. A current requirement for JDK 8u fixes is ensuring that the changes are integrated into later JDK release families first [Rule 1, [1]]. If jdk8u ports are being blocked because of this, please let the JDK 8 Update Project maintainers know.

While we wait for the JDK 9 Updates Project to form, I'd like to propose that we allow ports from JDK 10 into JDK 8 Updates where needed. We can open a '9-pool' record to track the JDK 9 port. I'll make the proposed change to the JDK 8 Updates rules next Friday if no objections are heard. [1] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk8u/groundrules.html



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