Quick confirmation

[Mark Reinhold]

> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:02:04 -0800
> From: john.rose at sun.com

> On Jan 25, 2008, at 2:20 AM, Volker Simonis wrote:
>> I've also noticed that there are no updates in the Mercurial
>> repositories since the inital b24 upload. Is this because of the
>> distributed nature of mercurial and the fact that every team inside
>> SUN keeps their own, private repositories?
> 
> Yes and no.  There have been no integrations yet because the
> integration repos. and associated machinery are still being
> carefully tested.  Some of this stuff, like commit message format
> and the mechanical checking of project design rules,
> has to be right the first time.  At least, that's my understanding
> of the situation; I'm doing JVM work, not (currently incredibly
> important) software process work.
> 
> ...
> 
> Meanwhile (to continue the home building metaphor)
> we're camping out on the subfloor and eating out a lot.

Thanks John, I couldn't have said it better myself.  (I especially like
your metaphor.)

In retrospect it was, perhaps, premature to do the cutover in December,
without every last bit of the infrastructure up and running, but we are
where we are.

Those remaining bits should be done in the next week or two, at which
point the changesets can start flowing.

- Mark