New build system problems

[David Holmes]

On 6/03/2013 8:24 AM, Martin Buchholz wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 1:53 PM, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com
> <mailto:david.holmes at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
>     You needed to have a jdk8 Reviewer listed for this change. Erik is a
>     Committer not Reviewer.
>
> That's not obvious.  Isn't it jcheck's job to make sure any required
> approvals are in?

It should be but obviously it does not do that check. That said you are 
an OpenJDK Reviewer and you should be familiar with the OpenJDK rules.

> I should have included more eyeball names on the Reviewed-by: line anyways.

Yes - mine would have fulfilled the requirement. ;-)

>         (only tested on Linux)
>
>     I sincerely hope Erik tested on Windows, BSD and Solaris before this
>     was pushed!
>
> This kind of change is very hard for folks outside of Oracle to test,
> without jprt access.  On the other hand, any breakage is easy to detect
> and fix. Let's not be too afraid to make changes!

Sorry but that is completely unacceptable. If you are providing changes 
that obviously impact multiple platforms (ie there are platform specific 
changes) then they _must_ be tested on all platforms. If the external 
author/committer can not do that then they must work with someone in 
Oracle who can assist with JPRT runs etc.

David