Hi,
I wanted to remind you about the upcoming months for 7u6. Most of the
feature work is now completed and work is now focused on bug fixing. In
mid June the inflow of fixes will be restricted to only include P1-P3
bugs. After the first week of July all fixes will require release team
approval. As I've mentioned in the past [1], I'm happy to help out with
the process when needed. Once we get closer to July, I'll send out
another update. I'll also propose a stabilization forest soon.
As always, keep in mind that these plans might change.
Cheers,
Edvard
[1]
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk7u-dev/2012-February/001900.html
On 05/12/2012 01:29 PM, Edvard Wendelin wrote:
Hi,
Since 7u4 is now generally available and the focus has shifted to 7u6, I'd like
to outline the timeline for Oracle JDK 7u6. As always, I'd like to remind you
that this is just a plan and that it can and probably will change before the
release is done.
Feature work should be completed by mid May and after that the focus shifts to
stabilizing the release. Up until mid June, the release is open for general bug
fixes, but after that you should work on P1-P3 bugs only. In the beginning of
July the inflow of bug fixes is restricted even further and all changes going
in will require critical fix approval. I described how the critical fix
approval process works back in February [1]. The same process will be used for
7u6.
This means that the number of open bugs targeted to the release will gradually
decrease and by the end of July there should be none left. All bugs should now
either have been fixed or deferred out to another release.
Finally I would also like to encourage you to either test the Oracle JDK 7u6 early
access builds posted on java.net<http://java.net> or your own OpenJDK build
and report issues to http://bugs.sun.com for the former or to the jdk7u-dev mailing
list for the latter - if you run into any!
Cheers,
Edvard
[1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk7u-dev/2012-February/001900.html
