Mutter awt fix.

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 10:39 Tue 17 May     , Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 17/05/11 01:41, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> > On 16:42 Mon 16 May     , Pavel Tisnovsky wrote:
> >>
> >> AFAIK you still did not received the rights to push this change to
> >> OpenJDK right (because the repos is in frozen state)? Or do you have bug
> >> ID for this fix at least?
> >>
> > 
> > Denis' patch was reviewed and accepted.  It hasn't been pushed because
> > Oracle seem to have decided to make up some new rules, limiting pushes
> > to the repositories without any prior notice.
> 
> This is presumably the OpenJDK 7 schedule, which was posted some time ago.
> Only higher-priority bug fixes are allowed.
> 
> http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7/
> 

And what it doesn't say is how 'higher-priority bug fixes' are
determined.  We've only ever been submitting bug fixes for the most
part, so I would have assumed that we could go on doing so for some
time.  However, the reality seems to be that we now can't submit
anything for the next three months to OpenJDK7, but Oracle can.  I
wouldn't be happy releasing IcedTea7 to our users with known issues,
so we will continue making the changes we need, but locally.  We also
can't work on OpenJDK8 because repositories haven't been made
available.

Of course, this is without mentioning that I would expect such
decisions to be discussed within an open source project, not handed
down as a mandate.

> Andrew.

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