Should we rename the MASTER forest?

[Xiomara.Jayasena at Sun.COM]

Xiomara.Jayasena at Sun.COM wrote:

> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
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>> On 08/11/2007, *David Herron* <David.Herron at sun.com 
>> <mailto:David.Herron at sun.com>> wrote:
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>>     Roman Kennke wrote:
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>>> 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
>>>
>>>  
>>>
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>>     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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>>
>> Is there a reason for that? Because it seems non-sensical to me and I 
>> guess to all other non-Sun folks.
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> How so? There are parallel releases going on or active at the same time.
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> For instance there would be a URL for jdk6 and jdk7 in the above.
> I am unclear how that is unclear to you?  ;-)

Typo on the smiley it was meant to be a ;-(
-Xiomara

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> -Xiomara
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