Need help with OpenJDK sandbox branch creation

[Kevin Rushforth]

You need to be a 'jdk' Project Committer [1] in order to push to any 
repo in the jdk Project, including the sandbox.

-- Kevin

[1] https://openjdk.java.net/census#jdk


On 5/23/2019 11:16 AM, Guy Steele wrote:
> Hi, sorry for wide distribution, but I am at my wits’ end and need help.
>
> I have finished writing the code for the new JEP on "Enhanced pseudo-random number generators” (https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8193209) and am now trying to follow the instructions at
>
> 	https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/docs/sandbox.html
>
> to treat a new branch "JDK-8193209-branch” to which to push this code for wider inspection.
>
> Following item 5 of those instructions, I successfully cloned the repository http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/sandbox and created the branch and did the dummy commit.  But the push on the last step is failing for reasons I don’t understand.  Here’s a transcript:
>
> ———————————————————————————
> gls% hg push -b JDK-8193209-branch --new-branch
> pushing to ssh://gls@hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/sandbox
> searching for changes
> remote: abort: could not lock repository jdk/sandbox: Read-only file system
> abort: unexpected response: empty string
> ———————————————————————————
>
> Here is the version info for Mercurial (I downloaded the latest one, for MacOS, just yesterday):
>
> ———————————————————————————
> gls% hg --version
> Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 5.0)
> (see https://mercurial-scm.org for more information)
>
> Copyright (C) 2005-2019 Matt Mackall and others
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
> ———————————————————————————
>
> Here are the contents of the file sandbox/.hg/hgrc on my local machine:
>
> ———————————————————————————
> [paths]
> default = http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/sandbox
> default-push = ssh://gls@hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/sandbox
> ———————————————————————————
>
>   I do have an ssh-agent running, and here is what ssh-add had to say:
>
> ———————————————————————————
> gls% ssh-add
> Identity added: /Users/gls/.ssh/id_rsa (/Users/gls/.ssh/id_rsa)
> ———————————————————————————
>
> Here is what “hg outgoing” produces:
>
> ———————————————————————————
> gls% hg outgoing
> comparing with ssh://gls@hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/sandbox
> searching for changes
> changeset:   56598:6a68d15c5569
> branch:      JDK-8193209-branch
> tag:         tip
> parent:      56596:65b0b63d7f14
> user:        Guy Steele <guy.steele at oracle.com>
> date:        Wed May 22 16:15:51 2019 -0400
> summary:     Initial changes for JDK-8193209
> ———————————————————————————
>
> Please, does anyone have any clues for me?
>
> —Guy
>