----- Original Message ----- > 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
It would be good if there was more mention of how non-Oracle employees can get involved. Comments like "SQE will report bugs to development" isn't very helpful. -- Andrew :) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) PGP Key: 248BDC07 (https://keys.indymedia.org/) Fingerprint = EC5A 1F5E C0AD 1D15 8F1F 8F91 3B96 A578 248B DC07
