New project: getting rid of IcedTea local patches

[Andrew Haley]

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.

The page is at http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea_JDK6_Patches
These are the patches in icedtea/patches and icedtea/patches/hotspot.


* Every patch should be assigned to someone.

* Every patch should be discussed.

* If we can, we will push a patch upstream.  If we can't the discussion
  should explain why we can't.

Here we go...

Andrew.