Setting up the OpenJDK IcedTea Project

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/3/9 Andrew John Hughes <gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org>:
> 2009/3/9 Mark Reinhold <mr at sun.com>:
>> A few more-or-less standard questions for you ...
>>
>
> Yes, think I've seen something similar before... ;)
>
>>  - Mercurial configuration: What do you need?  A single repository or
>>    two, or a forest or two (e.g., jdk6 and jdk7), or something else?
>>
>
> I'd like a jdk7 forest for the work on IcedTea7.  I didn't know we'd
> have the option of having more than one.  I quite like the idea of
> having a forest for 6 too, but I'll let others on this list chime in
> on whether they would be interested in taking this route or not.
>

We'll just go with one for jdk7 and see how that works out.  After
thinking about this more and discussing it with a few IcedTea hackers,
there doesn't seem to be much advantage for 6 given there's only one
existing jdk6 repository and changes to it are much slower.  We'd also
prefer not to upset the status quo too much :)

>>  - Mercurial users: Who needs push access?  If they aren't already
>>    registered in the OpenJDK infrastructure then I'll arrange for
>>    invitations to be sent to them.
>>
>
> Well, me to begin with :) I already have an OpenJDK username of
> 'andrew' from the challenge, assuming that's still active.
> For others, I'd like to wait for some feedback from those working on 6.

Yeah so just me for now unless anyone else wants to work on IcedTea7.

>
>>  - Mailing list: Do you want an icedtea-dev list, or do you just want
>>    to use distro-pkg-dev?  Do you want hg push notices to be sent to
>>    whichever list you choose?
>>
>
> I'm happy enough using distro-pkg-dev for discussion as we already do.
>  An additional list for commits would be good (e.g. icedtea-commits)
> and
> we could then maybe also send traffic from the IcedTea repositories there too.
>

We'll go with this: discussion to distro-pkg-dev and a new list,
icedtea-commits for commit traffic.

>>  - Do you have any initial content for your main Project web page?
>>    If so, please send it to me in simple XHTML.  Dalibor, in his role
>>    as Moderator, can always update it later on.  (We're working to allow
>>    any Project author to modify that Project's web content, but we're
>>    not quite there yet.)  If you don't send me anything then I'll create
>>    something plain and simple for now.
>>
>
> I'll try and come up with something tomorrow, probably along the same
> lines as the proposal.  It'll mainly point to
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/ as there's already a lot of information
> there.
>

Attached (based on the one for Zero).

>> - Mark
>>
>
> Thanks,
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