General Retrospective for March and April, 2026 Releases

[adamfarley]

Summary

A retrospective for all efforts surrounding the titular releases.

All community members are welcome to contribute to the agenda via comments below.

This will be a virtual meeting after the release, with at least a week of notice in the #release Slack channel.

On the day of the meeting we'll review the agenda and add a list of actions at the end.

Invited: Everyone.

Time, Date, and URL

Time:
Date:
URL:

Details

Retrospective Owner Tasks (in order):

• Post retro URL in #Release around the start of the new release.
• Wait until most builds are released, with no signs of a respin.
• Announce the retrospective's date + time on #Release a week in advance.
• Host the retrospective:
  • Go through the agenda.
  • Create a list of actions.
• Process each action:
  • Create a "WIP" issue including the source comment.
  • Add the issue to the current iteration.
  • Add an issue link to the action list.
• Create a new retrospective issue for the next release.
• Set a calendar reminder so you remember to do step 1 before the next release.
• Close this issue.

TLDR

Add proposed agenda items as comments below.

[Haroon-Khel]

March 2026 release - https://github.com/adoptium/temurin-build/blob/master/RELEASING.md#openjdk-new-major-release-process needs to be updated to say release_pipeline_jobs_generator_jdk<new-version-number> instead of pipeline_jobs_generator_jdk<new-version-number>

And to create the releaseTrigger job for new releases

[andrew-m-leonard]

We had a number of test job failures as TKG got a fresh release "tag" which meant including commits for which one had a necessary aqa-tests PR commit which wasn't in the aqa-tests release branch.
This TKG fix adoptium/TKG@1f950d4
required an accompanying aqa-tests fix