Proposed new schedule for JDK 8

Fri Apr 26 09:48:33 PDT 2013

2013年4月18日 2:28 -0700, mark.reinhold at oracle.com:
> As I wrote earlier today on my blog [1], the Java 8 schedule is no longer
> achievable due to a renewed focus on security on the part of all of us
> here at Oracle.
>> ...
>> With all that in mind, I think the least-bad option is to slip the
> schedule just enough to finish Lambda.
>> Here, then, is a proposed new schedule for JDK 8:
>> 2013年05月09日 M7 Feature Complete
> 2013年07月18日 Rampdown start
> 2013年09月05日 M8 Developer Preview
> 2013年09月12日 All Tests Run
> 2013年10月10日 API/Interface Freeze
> 2013年10月24日 Zero Bug Bounce
> 2013年11月21日 Rampdown phase 2
> 2014年01月23日 M9 Final Release Candidate
> 2014年03月18日 GA General Availability
>> Is this the best possible course of action? I think it's better than the
> alternatives, but I'm open to suggestions. I'd like to hear from other
> contributors to this Project, especially those involved in efforts to use
> the JDK 8 code base to build binary distributions that are expected to
> see wide use.

I've seen no objections to this proposal. Reasonably broad community
support for this change has been expressed in comments on my blog entry,
on Twitter, and elsewhere.
The above schedule is, therefore, now the plan of record, with one minor
change: The M7 (Feature Complete) milestone is moved out by two weeks,
to 2013年5月23日, in order to ensure that all planned feature work will make
that milestone.
I've updated the JDK 8 Project pages [2] accordingly.
- Mark
[1] http://mreinhold.org/blog/secure-the-train
[2] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk8/