When Oracle stopped working on openjdk6 update releases, our friends on distro-pkg-dev volunteered to take over maintenance. Perhaps there needs to be a staged handoff for openjdk7 as well?
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 3:35 AM, dalibor topic <dalibor.to...@oracle.com> wrote: > Hi, > > In line with prior communication [1] to this mailing list, JDK 7u80 is > the last planned Oracle-led JDK 7u release to be developed within this > OpenJDK Project. 7u80 it the last of the JDK 7 public updates [2], and > is planned for April 2015. > > Users of OpenJDK builds based on this Project should therefore consider > upgrading to OpenJDK 8, or, of course, to Oracle JDK 8, depending on their > requirements. > > With the planned JDK 7u80 GA date growing closer, it's time to send out > a proposal for the last two key remaining milestones: > > * Mid-January 2015 > - RampDown 2 > > * April 2015 > - GA > > To be clear, we won’t create separate jdk7u80/jdk7u80(-dev) forests > at RampDown 2, as this is the last release of this Project. > > The JDK 7u80 PSU [4] will be released alongside the April CPU and so > at GA will contain a superset of the changes in that CPU. > > Following the 7u80 GA, the applicable changes will get bulk integrated into > this Project, as has been the case for previous JDK 7 Update PSU releases. > At the same time, due to the superset nature of the PSU, there shouldn't be > many requests for approval to push into the jdk7u-dev forest in OpenJDK, > once we reach RampDown 2 in January. > > New contributions should go to the JDK 9 and JDK 8u Projects instead. > > Note that these timelines are preliminary only and are subject to change. > Please refer to the JDK 8 milestones definition page [3] for a summary of > what each milestone consists of. If no issues are raised with this schedule, > it will be published it on the JDK 7 Updates Project page after the > holidays. > > cheers, > dalibor topic > > [1] > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk7u-dev/2014-April/008910.html > [2] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html > [3] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk8/milestones > [4] > http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/cpu-psu-explained-2331472.html > -- > <http://www.oracle.com> Dalibor Topic | Principal Product Manager > Phone: +494089091214 <tel:+494089091214> | Mobile: +491737185961 > <tel:+491737185961> > > ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG | Kühnehöfe 5 | 22761 Hamburg > > ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG > Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München > Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 > Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz > > Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. > Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande > Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 > Geschäftsführer: Alexander van der Ven, Astrid Kepper, Val Maher > > <http://www.oracle.com/commitment> Oracle is committed to developing > practices and products that help protect the environment
