On 20.11.2015 04:39, Andrew Hughes wrote:
The corresponding Project's mailing list, jdk8u-dev, is the right place
to ask questions about JDK 8 Updates in OpenJDK. The JDK 8 Project has
completed its work with the JDK 8 GA a while ago, so this list is
largely dormant.
Is there a good reason for this practice?
Yes.
A JDK Release Project like JDK 8 is very different from a JDK 8 Updates
Project, even though one provides the source code necessary to seed the
other.
As a trivial example of the differences, a JDK Release Project works
towards a single release, and then it's done. A JDK Updates Project
tends to work on multiple releases in parallel, provided at a higher
frequency. Accordingly, the processes, the development life cycle, etc.
are quite different. It's much simpler to start from a clean slate in a
new Project, then to retrofit an existing one for a new purpose.
Having seen this happen with
both 7/7u and 8/8u mailing lists, it would seem to make sense to keep
one mailing list instead when 9 goes GA, to avoid this confusion.
No.
Please see http://openjdk.java.net/projects/ : "A Project may have web
content, one or more file repositories, and one or more mailing lists"
Mailing lists are Project-specific. Once a Project finishes its work,
its mailing list(s) eventually gets dormant and archived, rather than
reused for other Projects. See
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/coin-dev/2015-April/003487.html
for an example.
cheers,
dalibor topic
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