Re: Java releases every six months

2017-09-07 Thread Vincent Privat 
someone did ^^ https://twitter.com/glaforge/status/905710144675307520

2017-09-06 22:00 GMT+02:00 Vincent Privat :

> Haha you can ask him directly :)
> https://twitter.com/mreinhold/status/905444853076566016
>
> 2017-09-06 21:44 GMT+02:00 Dirk Stöcker :
>
>> On Wed, 6 Sep 2017, Vincent Privat wrote:
>>
>> "the version strings of feature releases will be of the form $YEAR.$MONTH.
>>> Thus next year’s March release will be 18.3, and the September long-term
>>> support release will be 18.9."
>>>
>>
>> Will the march 2100 release then be 100.3 ? ;-)
>>
>> Ciao
>> --
>> http://www.dstoecker.eu/ (PGP key available)
>>
>
>

Re: Java releases every six months

2017-09-06 Thread Vincent Privat 
Haha you can ask him directly :)
https://twitter.com/mreinhold/status/905444853076566016

2017-09-06 21:44 GMT+02:00 Dirk Stöcker :

> On Wed, 6 Sep 2017, Vincent Privat wrote:
>
> "the version strings of feature releases will be of the form $YEAR.$MONTH.
>> Thus next year’s March release will be 18.3, and the September long-term
>> support release will be 18.9."
>>
>
> Will the march 2100 release then be 100.3 ? ;-)
>
> Ciao
> --
> http://www.dstoecker.eu/ (PGP key available)
>

Re: Java releases every six months

2017-09-06 Thread Dirk Stöcker 

On Wed, 6 Sep 2017, Vincent Privat wrote:


"the version strings of feature releases will be of the form $YEAR.$MONTH.
Thus next year’s March release will be 18.3, and the September long-term
support release will be 18.9."


Will the march 2100 release then be 100.3 ? ;-)

Ciao
--
http://www.dstoecker.eu/ (PGP key available)

Java releases every six months

2017-09-06 Thread Vincent Privat 
Hello,
Mark Reinhold announced a big change for Java today:
https://mreinhold.org/blog/forward-faster

"after Java 9 we adopt a strict, time-based model with a new feature
release every six months, update releases every quarter, and a long-term
support release every three years."
"the version strings of feature releases will be of the form $YEAR.$MONTH.
Thus next year’s March release will be 18.3, and the September long-term
support release will be 18.9."

I cannot yet evaluate the impact for JOSM. What drives our migration
schedules is often the availability of the latest version of Java on Ubuntu
LTS. We will see in the coming months how Debian and Ubuntu adapt their
update cycle.

Vincent

I propose that after Java 9 we adopt a strict, time-based model with a new
feature release every six months, update releases every quarter, and a
long-term support release every three years propose that after Java 9 we
adopt a strict, time-based model with a new feature release every six
months, update releases every quarter, and a long-term support release
every three years.