Mutter awt fix.

[Andrew Haley]

On 05/17/2011 03:04 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 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 don't see how that follows.

> I wouldn't be happy releasing IcedTea7 to our users with known
> issues, so we will continue making the changes we need, but locally.

That depends on the severity of the bug, surely.  Sometimes you have
to make the judgement call that something will not be fixed because it
would potentially invalidate the test cycle and might break something
else.  This is all perfectly normal: there has to be a freeze window.

Andrew.