Mutter awt fix.

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 15:15 Tue 17 May     , Andrew Haley wrote:
> 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.
> 

It's just an observation, based on current activity.  Oracle are still
committing stuff, yet our patches are being refused.

> > 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.
> 

I don't have a problem with a freeze; we have them with IcedTea.  But
this only seems to be a freeze on external contributions, and not one
that has been discussed, but imposed.

> Andrew.

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