New project: getting rid of IcedTea local patches

[Dalibor Topic]

Andrew Haley wrote:
> We at Red Hat have noticed that the list of IcedTea local patches has
> been getting large, with some local patches that should have been
> pushed upstream.  Also, some IcedTea patches have been committed to
> OpenJDK 7 but not OpenJDK 6.
> 
> So, we're going to have a serious attempt to minimize the number of
> IcedTea patches.  We'll create a Wiki page at icedtea.classpath.org
> that is a list of the patches, and for every one we're going to
> discuss whether it should stay IcedTea local, be pushed upstream to
> OpenJDK, or be deleted altogether.  Then we will create OpenJDK
> bugzilla entries for the patches that we think should be integrated
> upstream and work with Sun engineers to get that done.
> 
> I hope that it will be possible to reduce the number of patches to a
> fraction of what we have at the moment, while improving the quality of
> the upstream product.
> 
> This is going to be quite a lot of work, so we'd appreciate help from
> anyone.

Absolutely - thank you very much for pushing for this, Andrew!

cheers,
dalibor topic

> 
> I hope this will meet with everyone's approval.
> 
> Andrew.


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