Should we rename the MASTER forest?

[David Herron]

Roman Kennke wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>> Given all this I hereby propose that we rename the MASTER forest
>> simply
>> to "jdk7".
>>     
> One thing I don't understand is, why is something in the repository URL
> named with a release (-like) number? Is the repository only made for
> JDK7, and we start a fresh one for JDK8? Doesn't seem to make much sense
> to me. Why not simply drop the '7' and name it 'jdk'? My personal
> favorite is 'openjdk' though. IMO the URLs should read like:
>
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/openjdk/<sub-repo>
>
> /Roman
>
>   


I'm thinking a similar thing.

But, the team practices Mark alluded to also includes having a new 
MASTER for each release.  There's the MASTER for 1.4, for 1.5, for 6, 
and for 7 and so on.  I think that would mean over time the URL's would read

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/openjdk7
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/openjdk8
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/openjdk9
...

- David Herron

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