Relationship of aarch32-port to jdk8u

[Alex Kashchenko]

Hi,

On 11/03/2016 09:38 PM, Simon Nash wrote:
> Andrew Hughes wrote:
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> Hi Simon,
>>>
>>> On Sun, 2016-09-25 at 19:58 +0100, Simon Nash wrote:
>>>> If I build the current source in aarch32-port, what level of jdk8u
>>>> am I getting?  I presume this is a snapshot from some point in the past
>>>> but I'm not sure how to find out how long ago the snapshot was taken.
>>> The aarch32 port is merged up to jdk8u102-b14, whereas the jdk8u-dev
>>> tip is
>>> at jdk8u22-b01.
>>>
>>
>> I'd regard this as a good thing, because jdk8u102-b14 is the last
>> release.
>>
>> The jdk8u-dev tree is a combination of multiple upcoming releases. Oracle
>> start work on one release (now u122), and collect community patches along
>> with their own. At some point, they enter a second stage where they
>> develop
>> the release in a private branch and work on jdk8u-dev moves onto the next
>> release. The final release then appears at the same time as the next
>> security release. The final u122 won't appear until January 2017.
>>
>> With aarch64/jdk8u, we only merge up to the last release, so it is also
>> currently at jdk8u102-b14. At security release time, we add first the
>> latest security update (in July, this was u101) and then the latest
>> feature update (u102 in July). We don't merge 8u in its entirety so
>> we have something that can be shipped to end users.
>>
>> Unless the aarch32 project really needs the latest changes from 8u-dev,
>> I would strongly suggest keeping to a similar model of just merging
>> the latest feature release every three months.
>>
> As jdk8u111-b14 and jdk8u112-b15 have now been released by Oracle, will the
> aarch32-port/jdk8u repo be updated to the jdk8u112-b15 level?

jdk8u111 is used in Fedora for some time. I also smoke tested 
jdk8u112-b15, merge is clean (except .hgtags), the only required 
platform-specific change I noticed is JDK-8130309 [1].

It would be great if jdk8u112-b15 will be merged and tagged, if I can do 
something useful here (post webrevs, run some specific tests etc) - 
please let me know.

Also during last update there was an unanswered question [2] about 
merging, may I ask someone from project lead/committers to comment on 
that question?


[1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8130309
[2] 
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/aarch32-port-dev/2016-August/000397.html

-- 
-Alex