OpenJDK 7 status

Kelly O'Hair kelly.ohair at oracle.com
Thu Jul 14 17:47:52 PDT 2011


I took the liberty of creating a mongo webrev for the bsd changes compared to the jdk7/jdk7 forest,
just so we have a feel for how to cut this up:
   http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ohair/openjdk7/jdk7-bsd-changes/webrev/

My suggestion on CRs (bug ids) and independent changesets to create and integrate:

  * Test modifications for BSD, I'd suggest doing these separately
     Same CR for langtools, hotspot and the jdk on fixing the testcases, low risk changes

  * Source additions, might need to be pushed before selected Makefile changes
     But this might take more review time, verifying legal notices and other picky source things?

  * Makefile logic changes for BSD
     Same CR for all repos,  Most of this is low risk.

  * Hotspot changes:
    - Wow. I'm not sure what to say to break this up.

The hotspot changes will probably need to be sponsored by someone on the hotspot team, but
if you can cut it up into sections, that would certainly help.

Once we have reviews and changesets, the next question is how do we integrate the changes
and into what, just jdk8?  Or do these changes need to go into 7u at some point?

-kto

P.S. Was it necessary to add all those BSD man pages? Do we really need those? Just curious.




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