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

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi Mark,

On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 08:09 -0700, Mark Reinhold wrote:
> In order to move this forward, I'll go ahead and create the proposed
> forests on hg.openjdk.java.net.

Thanks, how are they called and are they already populated?

I believe Lillian is holding up the IcedTea 1.5 release for this since
that is (since 1.4) already based on hs14 and it would be good to make
sure that instead of a jdk7/hotspot snapshot it would use the proper
public hs14 repo. There are also people with pending patches against it
that they would like to move upstream.

> In the fullness of time I still think there's value in having a HotSpot
> Express Project.  Those of us who've been involved in this discussion
> will understand what's going on, but it'd be good to have an obvious
> place where people new to the topic can find documentation.

There was a vote started to create a separate express project, but then
aborted because of procedural issues (wrong mailinglist). It is unclear
whether or not the project creation is stuck now.

Cheers,

Mark