OpenJDK 6 Build 17

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/11/10 Christos Zoulas <christos at zoulas.com>:
> 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
>

That's the kind of low-hanging fruit I was thinking would be good to
start with.  Once changesets are in OpenJDK7, it's relatively trival
to get them into OpenJDK6 too.
-- 
Andrew :-)

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