OpenJDK 6 Build 17

[Christos Zoulas]

On Nov 9,  7:59pm, glewis at eyesbeyond.com (Greg Lewis) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: OpenJDK 6 Build 17

| For me, the latter is the key question.  How do we move forward with
| getting BSD support (ultimately) into the current development tree so
| we have less heavy lifting to do going forward?
| 
| That's what I'd really like to come out of the discussion here.  I think
| we've been pretty good at keeping the bsd-port tree of OpenJDK7 up to date
| (its currently at b75 and I'll start moving it to b76 once that tag goes
| down) but we still don't seem to be any closer to getting the changes into
| the main source tree than we were when we started.  How do we move forward
| with that?  Is Sun's preferred method for us to go through OpenJDK6?  That
| certainly doesn't seem to have been the case for Zero, which is probably
| of a similar order of disruption, but I'm open to it for the BSD patches if
| there is a solid reason for doing it that way.
| 
| Certainly its starting to get a little demotivating to me personally and
| I can't help but wonder if other team members don't feel the same.
| 
| Andrew, this isn't aimed at you at all, btw, you're just kinda touching
| on a bit of a sore spot :).
| 
| Dalibor, who needs to be involved in such a discussion and what can I do
| to help move it forward?

Just to put my own 2c in the discussion, a lot of the changes are
non-controvercial and they fix bugs (such as incorrect argument passing
of int where it should have been socklen_t, etc.). Could at least those
get merged so that the amount of diff is reduced? Who is going to do it?
Can we help by producing a diff of what we think are non-controvercial?

christos