[PATCH] Always apply Zero and Shark patches

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/5/8 Gary Benson <gbenson at redhat.com>:
> Andrew Haley wrote:
>> Andrew Haley wrote:
>> > For what it worth: there may be little practical benefit in
>> > getting Zero into OpenJDK 6.  By the time we get it all in,
>> > OpenJDK 6 is going to be in maintenance-only mode, not quite EOL
>> > but getting there.  I'd advise you to concentrate on OpenJDK 7.
>>
>> I just realized this is silly: once Zero is in 7 it'll turn up in
>> 6 after a little while anyway.
>
> Ok, but for the bugs and things in the class library, do I bother
> pushing them to 6 or just 7 only?
>
> Cheers,
> Gary
>
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The common way seems to be to do the main work with 7, then Joe can
give the green light for a backport of the changeset to 6 if
appropriate.  There are more eyes on 7 so seems best to go there
first.
-- 
Andrew :-)

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