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Re: Big changes are coming to Java SE release cycle

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Am 12.09.2017 um 00:52 schrieb Arne Vajhøj:
> On 9/11/2017 6:46 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> https://mreinhold.org/blog/forward-faster
>>
>> <quote>
>>      Taking inspiration from the release models used by other
>> platforms and by various operating-system distributions, 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.
>>
>>      Feature releases can contain any type of feature, including not
>> just new and improved APIs but also language and JVM features. New
>> features will be merged only when they’re nearly finished, so that the
>> release currently in development is feature-complete at all times.
>> Feature releases will ship in March and September of each year,
>> starting in March of 2018.
>>
>>      Update releases will be strictly limited to fixes of security
>> issues, regressions, and bugs in newer features. Each feature release
>> will receive two updates before the next feature release. Update
>> releases will ship quarterly in January, April, July, and October, as
>> they do today.
>>
>>      Every three years, starting in September of 2018, the feature
>> release will be a long-term support release. Updates for these
>> releases will be available for at least three years and quite possibly
>> longer, depending upon your vendor.
>> </quote>
>
> And:
>
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2017-September/004281.html
>
> <quote>
>   - Starting with JDK 9 we'll ship OpenJDK builds under the GPL [6], to
>     make it easier for developers to deploy Java applications to cloud
>     environments.  We'll initially publish OpenJDK builds for Linux/x64,
>     followed later by builds for macOS/x64 and Windows/x64.
>
>   - We'll continue to ship proprietary "Oracle JDK" builds, which include
>     "commercial features" [7] such as Java Flight Recorder and Mission
>     Control [8], under a click-through binary-code license [9].  Oracle
>     will continue to offer paid support for these builds.
>
>   - After JDK 9 we'll open-source the commercial features in order to
>     make the OpenJDK builds more attractive to developers and to reduce
>     the differences between those builds and the Oracle JDK.  This will
>     take some time, but the ultimate goal is to make OpenJDK and Oracle
>     JDK builds completely interchangeable.
> </quote>
>
> Arne
>
>
These are very good decisions! Who would have thought I was going to 
like Oracle's stewardship of Java. This is going entirely in the right 
direction.

-- Sebastian

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Big changes are coming to Java SE release cycle Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-09-11 18:46 -0400
  Re: Big changes are coming to Java SE release cycle Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-09-11 18:52 -0400
    Re: Big changes are coming to Java SE release cycle Sebastian <nowhere@nirvana.org> - 2017-09-12 23:37 +0200
      Re: Big changes are coming to Java SE release cycle Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-09-12 20:01 -0400

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