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

Mark Reinhold mr at sun.com
Wed May 13 13:59:10 PDT 2009


> Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 09:44:22 +0200
> From: Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp.org>

> 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?

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/hsx/hsx14/baseline
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/hsx/hsx14/master

(I don't know why the tip changeset in each of these repos is labeled
 "6836332: Bump Hotspot 14 build number to 15", which seems odd.)

>> 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.

Not aborted, just delayed.  Dalibor is assisting.

- Mark



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