Should we rename the MASTER forest?

[Roman Kennke]

Hi David,

Am Donnerstag, den 08.11.2007, 12:23 -0800 schrieb 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
> ...

So, if I understand it correctly, you are 'branching' at the beginning
of a release cycle, instead after the release. And when a new release
cycle starts, you would clone jdkX to jdkX+1 ? Strange practice for my
taste...

/Roman

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