Mercurial update

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 25/01/2008, Mark Reinhold <mr at sun.com> wrote:
> In December we officially switched from TeamWare, the old Sun-internal
> source-code management system, to Mercurial.
>
> No changesets have yet been pushed into the JDK 7 repositories because
> the last few remaining bits of infrastructure are not yet complete.
> These include a small Mercurial extension to check changeset comments,
> legal notices, and repository invariants, and also the core community
> database, which tracks Members, Groups, Projects, repositories, and the
> relationships between all these things.  (The extension will, naturally,
> be published under the GPL for use outside of Sun.)
>
> Those remaining bits should be done in the next week or two, at which
> point the changesets can start flowing.
>
> For some additional perspective please see John Rose's message to
> build-dev earlier this morning [1].
>
> In retrospect it was, perhaps, premature to do the cutover in December,
> without every last bit of the infrastructure up and running, but we are
> where we are.
>
> - Mark
>
>
> [1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2008-January/000720.html
>

Hi Mark,

Thanks for filling us in and for all your hard work making the JDK
processes open and community accessible.  It's very much appreciated
and we anticipate the day when those changesets do start flowing :)
-- 
Andrew :-)

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