How to host HS14 stable? (Was: RFC: Change name of default HotSpot to 'default')

[Joseph D. Darcy]

Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 2009/2/18 Joe Darcy <Joe.Darcy at sun.com>:
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>> On 02/17/09 01:15 AM, Mark Wielaard wrote:
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>> Hi Christian (CCed hotspot-dev for advice)
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>> On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 09:55 +0100, Christian Thalinger wrote:
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>> On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 09:25 +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote:
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>> Great. I was surprised if it was otherwise.
>> I was just confused which tree to track to make sure to get the latest
>> HS14 since we are trying to keep all branches (zero/shark/default) of
>> IcedTea6 at a stable Hotspot release. Is this in the default
>> jdk7/jdk7/hotspot tree or in some other one?
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>> The jdk7 repository contains HS15 and therefore not a stable one.  I
>> just looked into the jdk6 repository but it only contains HS11.  I don't
>> know of any open HS14 repository off the top of my head.
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>> So it would be good to have an open repo that hosts the HS14 stable
>> build so that people interested in a stable, but modern, hotspot could
>> base their work on that. Since IcedTea6 is trying to standardize on HS14
>> for the default hotspot and the one that Zero and Shark are based on I
>> could create a icedtea/hotspot repo branched from the latest HS14 code
>> in the jdk7/jdk7/hotspot repo. Would that be interesting to others? How
>> do we coordinate backporting fixes to it? Any other suggestions for
>> hosting an open hotspot HS14 repo (maybe as subtree of one of the other
>> 6 hotspot repos under jdk7/hostspot-* (I admit to not know what they are
>> all for currently).
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>>
>> Hello.
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>> I have been talking with the HotSpot team inside Sun about the logistics
>> needed to support a public HotSpot Mercurial repository usable by both
>> OpenJDK 6 and the 6 update release, which would mean the stabilized HotSpot
>> 14 at this point.
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>> We should have something figured out relatively soon; I'll post when we do.
>>
>> -Joe
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> Any news on this?
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Some news should be available real soon now...

-Joe