We need to support special releases of 8u updates with an opt string/suffix identifying the release. This is similar to but not exactly the same as the X.0.Y-oracle fixVersions we have in later updates. In this case, we need the 8uXXX-foo release to be completely separate, and to use separate tags that include this -foo suffix "jdk8uXXX-foo-bYY". This tag format is what complicates things, since for the X.0.Y-oracle releases, we do not include the suffix in the tags.

I think the only way around this is to introduce a per repo configuration option on the notifier to control the behavior of suffixes in tags. The notifier needs this option in order to correctly match a tag to a fixVersion.