Is there a 24 hr production release warning DL? (original) (raw)

Jeff Palmer jcpalmer at rochester.rr.com
Thu Nov 1 15:09:56 PDT 2012

Dalibor, Thanks for the information. I added myself, and added a mail filter for [7u communication]. Looking through the archives, there are some good messages, like the 7u10 schedule link, http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk7u-dev/2012-August/004228.html

Seems a little too informal though. I found the release message for 7u6, http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk7u-dev/2012-August/004059.html . Nothing for 7u9. The date on ire-7u9-macosx-x64.dmg is 2012-09-27 5:55PM & 2012-09-25 1:04PM for the file inside. I find no message announcing it. I find only 2 messages with 7u9 even in the title.

This means I would been equally unprepared if I was monitoring back then, maybe unless a was reading the full text of every message. To be fair, I did not even recognize I had a problem until one of the jars changed. Testing on my side also needs to improve.

Saw, the doc about the quarterly security release, but this just a guideline.

I thought, ok just monitor http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp a couple times a day with a production server, & send a sms-like Gmail if the page changes + server logging. What's one more when it already monitors over 1500 pages now? Problem is the meta date tag of the page says 2012-08-14, the same day as 7u6 message from above. The text it says Version 9, so the page looks wrong.

Should I submit a bug for the manual.jsp meta date tag? Do I need to RegEx the text of the page and fish out version numbers (fragile)?

Thanks,

Jeff

On Oct 29, 2012, at 3:00 PM, macosx-port-dev-request at openjdk.java.net wrote:

From: Dalibor Topic <dalibor.topic at oracle.com> Subject: Re: Is there a 24 hr production release warning DL? Date: October 29, 2012 1:17:37 PM EDT To: macosx-port-dev at openjdk.java.net

On 10/26/12 8:16 PM, Jeff Palmer wrote: Well did eventually find the list of lists , http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo . The "announce" list might work, being tightly moderated. There was a message in October, but the 7u9 ea's or release not it. Anything wrong with using that one? That list is for general, OpenJDK-wide announcements. Weekly builds of a specific project don't fit that bill. The list you're looking for is jdk7u-dev, which has announcements on schedules, etc. under subjects starting with [7u communication]. No EA build announcements, though, since we don't actually provide builds in OpenJDK, but you can follow along with the commit messages to see when a particular build's sources have been tagged, and attempt to build it yourself, if you like. Here's an example tag commit message: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk7u-dev/2012-September/004332.html

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